Universal #1043

Legacy number: 1043

 Number  1039
 Original  Root accent is systematically favoured over inflectional accent.
 Standardized  Root accent is systematically favoured over inflectional accent.
 Keywords  root, affix, accent
 Domain  phonology, morphology
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976
 Source  Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 13

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Discussion
Notes
Accent = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Accent = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).