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Universal 1031:

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Universal 1031:

Original
The climactic poles of the three accentual features tend to correlate with each other. Thus, e.g., where stress is predictable from vowel length, it is always the long degree which attracts stress.
Standardized
The climactic poles of the three accentual features tend to correlate with each other. Thus, e.g., where stress is predictable from vowel length, it is always the long degree which attracts stress.
Keywords
stress, vowel, length, accent
Domain
prosodic phonology
Type
mutual implication
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976
Source
Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 3
Counterexamples

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    Accent = phonetic features occurring just once or at most once in the phonological word, with cumulative or demarcative function (Greenberg & Kaschube 1976).

    1. May 2020

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