<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It depends on what you mean by “no stress” of course. The LAPDyD database has 183 languages which are classified as having<div class="">no stress. The list of these is attached. You can check out most of these by logging in to LAPSyD (<a href="http://www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr/index.php" class="">http://www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr/index.php</a>)</div><div class="">and go to the references cited as sources. The list of languages concerned is in the attached word file. There are 284 languages listed</div><div class="">as having a ‘minor’ role for stress — this is usually when there is perceptible prominence which has a predictable location — and 171</div><div class="">languages with a lexical (contrastive) function for stress. So ‘no stress’ is more frequent in this sample than contrastive stress, but</div><div class="">the most common pattern is for stress to fall at a predictable location.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2019, at 07:44, TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr" class="">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; direction: ltr; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hey all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is just a query for sources.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 [?]. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative and obligatory marking of prominence. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(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).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Adam <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Verdana" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="Verdana" class="">Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" face="Verdana" class=""><font id="m_3919909859269038950gmail-m_5205887595431460677ydp7e7a8001yui_3_16_0_1_1411635518217_22876" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font id="m_3919909859269038950gmail-m_5205887595431460677ydp7e7a8001yui_3_16_0_1_1411635518217_22885" class="">ELDP-SOAS -- </font>Postdoctorante<br class=""></font><font id="m_3919909859269038950gmail-m_5205887595431460677ydp7e7a8001yui_3_16_0_1_1411635518217_22876" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font id="m_3919909859269038950gmail-m_5205887595431460677ydp7e7a8001yui_3_16_0_1_1411635518217_22883" class="">CNRS -- </font>Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596)</font></font><font id="m_3919909859269038950gmail-m_5205887595431460677ydp7e7a8001yui_3_16_0_1_1411635518217_22883" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="2" face="Verdana" class=""><br class="">Bureau 207, 14 av. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class=""><div class="">Ian Maddieson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Department of Linguistics</div><div class="">University of New Mexico</div><div class="">MSC03-2130</div><div class="">Albuquerque NM 87131-0001</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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