No Stress Typology
Our contribution introduces a new typological database on word stress that is
being constructed from two separate databases. We offer a sneak preview of the
distribution of languages by stress type in these two databases, and conclude
that we should not expect to gain any drastic new insights from the new database
with respect to this distribution. Secondly, broadening our views beyond
Indonesian – a language without word stress – we investigated descriptions
of all Austronesian languages for which the phonological status of word stress
seems doubtful, to see whether there are more of these “stressless” languages.
We conclude that there may be quite a few such languages, and hypothesize that
the use of phrasal accent rather than word stress is a fairly widespread linguistic
feature in the Malayo-Polynesian area.
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