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Universal 890:

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Universal 890:

Original
Iambic vs. Troachaic phrase accent and its many correlates
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Keywords
phrase accent, word canon, timing, mora, syllable, consonantism, vocalism, tone, verse, music, order, object, verb, adverb, auxiliary, adjective, noun, attributive, postposition, clitic, enclitic proclitic, affix-order, suffix, prefix, synthesis, analysis, agglutination, polysynthesis, flexion, isolation
Domain
prosodic phonology, morphology, syntax
Type
mutual implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
Mon-Khmer, Munda, Khamti-Tai, Chamic, Sinitic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Thai, Indonesian, Tibeto-Burman, Australian, Austronesian, Uralic, Altaic, Japanese, Basque, Germanic, Romance, Celtic families
Source
Donegan & Stampe 1983, Stampe 1985, summarized in Plank 1998
Counterexamples
For counterexamples of the correlation between verb/object and noun/modifier orders see #107.

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    1. There are encouragingly numerous agreements between iambic and trochaic types of Donegan & Stampe and the progressive-oxytonic and anticipatory-barytonic orders respectively of Bally, Wartburg, and Lohmann; see #675.2. Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages used to be iambic, but have drifted towards the trochaic type.3. See comments to #894.4. See also #891.

    1. May 2020

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