<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Randy and David,</div><div><br></div><div>In the particular case of Trans-Himalayan/Sino-Tibetan, iambic stress patterns are found in several disconnected zones, and not exclusively in the south. It is attested in particular in some prefixing Kiranti languages (such as Khaling and Limbu), and in Gyalrongic languages, where an influence from Austro-asiatic is not possible (see Lai 2021 on the development of the prefixal chain in Khroskyabs). In addition, Baxter and Sagart (2014) argue, using evidence from loanwords into Vietic and Lakkia, that Old Chinese (the northernmost TH language) had presyllables (with an iambic stress pattern) until the Han dynasty.</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume<br></div><div><br></div><div>References</div><div>Baxter, William H. III & Laurent Sagart. 2014. Old Chinese: A new reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press</div><div>
<div class="gmail-tab-pane gmail-fade gmail-show gmail-active" id="gmail-MLA" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="MLA-tab">Lai, Yunfan. "Betrayal through obedience: on the history of the unusual inflectional chain in Siyuewu Khroskyabs: " <i>Linguistic Typology</i>, vol. 25, no. 1, 2020, pp. 79-122. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-2075">https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-2075</a></div>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 19 août 2021 à 04:06, Randy J. LaPolla <<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi Matt,<div>Similar to what David mentions, although it isn’t a single language, within Sino-Tibetan there is a similar geographic difference, with northern languages tending towards trochaic and southern languages tending towards iambic, which we assume was due to influence from the Austro-Asiatic languages in the south.</div><div><br></div><div>Randy<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18 Aug 2021, at 6:52 PM, David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
<div><p>Dear Matt,<br>
</p><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><p><br>
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anyone aware of a language where metrical/rhythmic structure
has clearly shifted from having right-headed (iambic) feet to
left-headed
(trochaic) feet or vice versa? I’m studying a language variety
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
helpful, thanks!<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Regards,<span></span></p>
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