<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Adam,</div><div><br></div><div>Languages without word stress appear to be pretty common (and increasingly more so given recent re-analyses of languages traditionally described as having stress) but only phrase-level intonation. Probably a more secure example than French (which does display certain attributes suggesting metrical prominence) would be Korean (also analyzed as having word-level stress in the past) examined in work by Sun-Ah Jun (e.g. 1993, 1998). Other languages <font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">with a similar prosodic file (intonation but not word stress) include West Greenlandic (Arnhold 2014), Halh Mongolian (Karlsson 2014) and Turkish under certain analyses (<span>Özçelik 2012</span>). (There seem to be many others as well.) All of these languages have in common that at one time (and even currently) have been proposed to have word-level stress that (in most of the cases) gravitates toward the periphery of a domain, which is also the site for pitch movements attributed to an intonation system. Reliable diagnostics for definitively distinguishing between word stress and prominence attributed to intonation are often difficult to find. <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">References:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"></span><span>Arnhold, Anja. 2014.
Prosodic structure and focus realization in West Greenlandic. In Jun, Sun-Ah
(ed.), <i>Prosodic typology II: The
phonology of intonation and phrasing, </i>216-51. New York: Oxford University
Press.<span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Jun, Sun-Ah. 1993. The
phonetics and phonology of Korean prosody. Ph. D. dissertation, The Ohio State
University.<span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Jun, Sun-Ah. 1998. The
Accentual Phrase in the Korean prosodic hierarchy. Phonology 15, 189-226.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">
</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Karlsson, Anastasia M. 2014. The intonational
phonology of Mongolian. In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.), <i>Prosodic typology II: The phonology of intonation and phrasing</i>, pp.
187-215. New York: Oxford University Press.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Özçelik,
Öner. 2012. Redefining the prosodic hierarchy. <i>McGill Working Papers in Linguistics</i> 22.1 (<a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgwpl/files/mcgwpl/ozcelik2012.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgwpl/files/mcgwpl/ozcelik2012.pdf</a>)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:left"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>
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</div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Matt<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 6:44 AM TALLMAN Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr" target="_blank">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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>
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<div>To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative and obligatory marking of prominence. </div>
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<div>(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>
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