Universal #893

Legacy number: 893

 Number  890
 Original  Iambic vs. Troachaic phrase accent and its many correlates
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 Keywords  phrase accent, word canon, timing, mora, syllable, consonantism, vocalism, tone, verse, music, order, object, verb, adverb, auxiliary, adjective, noun, attributive, postposition, clitic, enclitic proclitic, affix-order, suffix, prefix, synthesis, analysis, agglutination, polysynthesis, flexion, isolation
 Domain  prosodic phonology, morphology, syntax
 Type  mutual implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  Mon-Khmer, Munda, Khamti-Tai, Chamic, Sinitic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Thai, Indonesian, Tibeto-Burman, Australian, Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Basque, Germanic, Romance, Celtic families
 Source  Donegan & Stampe 1983, Stampe 1985, summarized in Plank 1998

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Discussion
Counterexamples
For counterexamples of the correlation between verb/object and noun/modifier orders see #107.
Notes
1. There are encouragingly numerous agreements between iambic and trochaic types of Donegan & Stampe and the progressive-oxytonic and anticipatory-barytonic orders respectively of Bally, Wartburg, and Lohmann; see #675.2. Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages used to be iambic, but have drifted towards the trochaic type.3. See comments to #894.4. See also #891.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. There are encouragingly numerous agreements between iambic and trochaic types of Donegan & Stampe and the progressive-oxytonic and anticipatory-barytonic orders respectively of Bally, Wartburg, and Lohmann; see <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=675"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

2. Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages used to be iambic, but have drifted towards the trochaic type.

3. See comments to <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=894"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.

4. See also <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=891"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.