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<p>Riau Indonesian can be added to the list of languages without
word-level stress, as argued in:</p>
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Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Gil,
David (2006) "Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian",
in
C.M. Lee, M. Gordon, and D. Büring eds., <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Topic
and Focus, Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and
Intonation</i>, Studies
in Linguistics and Philosophy 82, Springer, Dordrecht, 41-68.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>David<br>
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Hey all,
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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
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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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