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Universal 1038:

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Universal 1038:

Original
When secondary stress is phonological, it most frequently involves alternations of weak stress (unstressed?) with secondary stress (so the the favourite position of secondary stress is two syllables before or after the main stress); when there are deviations, a factor of syllabic weight is probably always involved.
Standardized
IF secondary stress is phonological, THEN it most frequently involves alternations of weak stress (unstressed?) with secondary stress (so the favorite position of secondary stress is two syllables before or after the main stress); when there are deviations, a factor of syllabic weight is probably always involved.
Keywords
stress, syllable, accent
Domain
prosodic phonology
Type
no genuine implication; rather: provided that
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
sample of almost 200 languages in Greenberg & Kaschube 1976
Source
Greenberg & Kaschube 1976: 8
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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