Universal #1068
Legacy number: 1068
| Number | 1064 |
| Original | Languages often have mechanisms to remove stress from final position, often putting it in penultimate position; but there is no corresponding tendency for stress to shift into final position. Also, there is a tendency for stress to be shifted out of second position; but no language will readjust echo stress (iterative secondary stress) so that is occurs in second position rather than initially. |
| Standardized | Synchronic stress shifts may be from final to other (often penultimate) syllables or from second to other (often initial) syllables, but never the other ways around. |
| Keywords | stress, syllable |
| Domain | prosodic phonology |
| Type | unconditional |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | absolute |
| Basis | sample of 444 languages in Hyman 1977 |
| Source | Hyman 1977: 42 |
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