Article published in:
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
[Not in series 189] 2014
► pp. 83–95

No Stress Typology

| Universiteit Leiden
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.
Published online: 10 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.07goe
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