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<p>Dear Matt,<br>
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<p>In colloquial Malay/Indonesian, some dialects are iambic while
others are trochaic; with just a few exceptions this follows a
geographical pattern, with final stress to the west, penultimate
stress to the east. So presumably the kind of shift you are
looking for must have taken place here, in the course of the
diversification of Malay/Indonesian dialects.</p>
<p>As for the directionality of the shift: given that Malay
originated in the western part of the archipelago, where foot
structure is iambic, one might speculate that this was the
original pattern, and that as the language spread eastwards, some
varieties switched to trochaic, most likely under the influence of
the local substrate languages, many of which have trochaic
structure.</p>
<p>David</p>
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where this seems
to be the case. It’s a quantity-sensitive system, so the
change mainly affects
strings of light syllables. Any examples or suggested
resources would be
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