Rara #21

Legacy number: 21

 Number  21
 Phenomenon  word-stress on postinitial syllable (or mora)
 Found in  less than 3% of languages, including Araucanian and a few Uto-Aztecan languages (though reconstructed for Proto-Uto-Aztecan!)
 Domain  phonology — word-stress
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  postinitial syllable
 Source  Hyman, Larry M. (1977). On the nature of linguistic stress. In Hyman (ed.) 1977, 37-82.
Munro, Pamela (1977). Towards a reconstruction of Uto-Aztecan stress. In Hyman (ed.) 1977, 303-326.
Hyman, Larry M. (ed.) (1977). Studies in Stress and Accent. (Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 4.). Los Angeles: Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California.
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