Universal #1053
Legacy number: 1053
| Number | 1049 |
| Original | We would expect that a system which stresses the initial syllable as the elsewhere case (i.e., if words lack a long vowel, full vowel, or heavy syllable that would attract stress) would be more common than a system which places stress on the final syllable in the elsewhere case, regardless of whether stress on strong syllables is determined from the left or from the right. |
| Standardized | We would expect that a system which stresses the initial syllable as the elsewhere case (i.e., if words lack a long vowel, full vowel, or heavy syllable that would attract stress) would be more common than a system which places stress on the final syllable in the elsewhere case, regardless of whether stress on strong syllables is determined from the left or from the right. |
| Keywords | stress, syllable |
| Domain | prosodic phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | survey of some 20 languages |
| Source | Odden 1979: 162 |
Discussion
Counterexamples
Komi Jazva (Permic, Uralic) (analyzed in Kiparsky 1973)
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