nonesuch 127: word-stress sensitive to consonant voicing (such sensitivity to phonation being more characteristic of tone than of stress)
- Where found
- Pirahã (Mura-Pirahã, Macro-Chibchan)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- word-stress, tone
- Keywords
- consonant, voicing
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- none?
- Source
- Everett, Daniel & K. Everett (1984). Syllable onsets and stress placement in Pirahã. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 3: 105-116.
Possibly, however, Pirahã is a tone language rather than a stress language, rendering such sensitivity less unexpected.