[Lingtyp] languages without word level stress

[David Gil]

Riau Indonesian can be added to the list of languages without word-level 
stress, as argued in:

Gil, David (2006) "Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian", in 
C.M. Lee, M. Gordon, and D. Büring eds., /Topic and Focus, 
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation/, Studies in 
Linguistics and Philosophy 82, Springer, Dordrecht, 41-68.

Similar facts probably obtain for a large number of languages of western 
Indonesia.  I would concur with Matthew Gordon's comment and suggest 
that the absence of word-level stress is probably under-reported in the 
world's languages.

David


On 17/10/2019 16:44, TALLMAN Adam wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> This is just a query for sources.
>
> I'm looking for languages that have been explicitly described as 
> having no word-level stress. I was under the impression that this was 
> fairly common, but apparently the existence of such languages (e.g. 
> French) is controversial [?].
>
> To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative 
> and obligatory marking of prominence.
>
> (After that, I'm wondering whether there have been cases of languages 
> that are described as containing neither word-level nor phrase-level 
> stress in the same sense).
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
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