<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Matt,<div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Aug 2021, at 6:52 PM, David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">Dear Matt,<br class="">
</p><p class="">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 class="">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 class="">David</p><p class=""><br class="">
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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 class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
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