<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hi Adam, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Southern Vietnamese is considered to have no word-level stress (see Brunelle, 2017). Nevertheless, the author also points out that there is variation between speakers.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Brunelle, M. (2017). Stress and phrasal prominence in tone languages: The case of Southern Vietnamese. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(3), 283-320. doi:10.1017/S0025100316000402<br></div><div><br></div><div>All the best,<br>Annika</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" style=""><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- Ein Do, 17 Okt 2019 15:44:35 +0200 <b>TALLMAN Adam <Adam.TALLMAN@cnrs.fr></b> schrieb ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div class=" zm_7808826442505124276_parse_2241116014261917876"><div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Verdana;color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 12.0pt;"><div>Hey all, <br></div><div><br></div><div>This is just a query for sources.<br></div><div><br></div><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 [?]. <br></div><div><br></div><div>To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative and obligatory marking of prominence. <br></div><div><br></div><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).<br></div><div><br></div><div>best,<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Adam <br></div><div> <br></div><div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 13.0px;font-family: Tahoma;"><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><span class="size" style="font-size:13px">Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)</span></span><br></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:Verdana"><span class="size" style="font-size:13px"><span><span>ELDP-SOAS
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