<div dir="ltr"> Hi Adam,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cherokee could be a case (but maybe not ideal); there are words which have a syllable which have accent-like properties (and most likely they are remnants of Proto-Iroquoian accent) but they have morphosyntactic functions (such as subordination, nominalization, etc.) and thus doesn't satisfy the requirement of obligatoriness, thus it is not an accent in Hyman's sense. Other words completely lack any syllable that is prominent, both acoustically and phonologically (I.e. number of contrasts). If I remember correctly, Chafe describes that another Iroquoian language Seneca is similar in that some words completely lack accent (while other words do). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Hiroto</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El jue., 17 de oct. de 2019 a la(s) 08:44, TALLMAN Adam (<a href="mailto:Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr" target="_blank">Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr</a>) escribió:<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>This is just a query for sources.</div>
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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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