<div dir="ltr">Dear Matt,<div><br></div><div>This is attested in some Otomanguean languages. Within Zapotecan, Zapotec generally has (or had) a trochaic pattern while Chatino has (or had) an iambic pattern. Many languages in each subgroup have undergone deletion of the atonic vowels, thus cognates between Zapotec and Chatino can look very different despite being cognates (for instance, 'tortilla' is g<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">εt in Teotitlán Zapotec while it is kyja in Quiahije Chatino, from *ketta</span>). Within Mixtecan, most Mixtec varieties have a trochaic pattern but some (such as Yoloxochitl Mixtec; DiCanio et al 2018) and Triqui have an iambic pattern. </div><div><br></div><div>DiCanio, Christian, Joshua Benn and Rey Castillo García. 2018. The phonetics of information structure in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics 68: 50-68.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Hiroto</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 18 de ago. de 2021 a la(s) 05:52, David Gil (<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</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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    <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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          strings of light syllables. Any examples or suggested
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