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rarum (or infrequentale?) 17

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rarum (or infrequentale?) 17: Resolved Moraic Trochee as foot type

Where found
(esp. older) Germanic (IE); Cayuvava (Andean-Equatorial) (?)
Domain
phonology
Subdomain
foot structure
Keywords
moraic trochee, resolved
Type
rarum (or infrequentale?)
Universals violated
not yet in UA: Foot inventory in Hayes 1995
Source
Dresher, B. Elan & Aditi Lahiri (1991). The Germanic foot: Metrical coherence in Germanic. Linguistic Inquiry 22: 251-286.
Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Key, Harold (1961). The phonotactics of Cayuvava. IJAL 27: 143-150.