<div dir="ltr">According to my readings the past few nights, different dialects of Korean appear to prefer either iambic or trochaic feet. <a href="http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/bitstream/10108/90282/1/jaas094012_ful.pdf">http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/bitstream/10108/90282/1/jaas094012_ful.pdf</a> <div><br></div><div>My own interest here is whether foot type has an effect on the sizes of ideophone/mimetic inventories in languages. Korean has at least 30,000 (pooling derivations and compounds) (Seoul dialect only??). Middle Korean (and the current Seoul dialect) present iambic feet. </div><div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 5:08 AM Randy J. LaPolla <<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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 Guillaume,<div>No one said it was an absolute rule; it is an areal tendency that has been talked about for a long time. There is also no such thing as a single cause for all phenomena in a large and widely spread language family like this.</div><div><br></div><div>Matisoff (2001) considers the sesqui-syllabic structure that results from the reduction of initial syllables in two syllable compounds where there is an iambic stress pattern an areal feature of Mainland Southeast Asian languages within what he calls the Indosphere (as opposed to the Sinosphere), but talks about the process as cyclical, and not uniform in all language groups.</div><div><br></div><div>David Bradley (1980) gives a very good historical explanation for the type of language contact that might have led to Burmese having so many Mon characteristics, such as the iambic pattern. </div><div><br></div><div>See also Donegan and Stampe (2004—a summary of work they had done on this since the 1970’s) on the iambic pattern as characteristic of SEAsia and its importance in understanding in the development of Munda.</div><div><br></div><div>Bradley, David. 1980. Phonological Convergence Between Languages in Contact: Mon-Khmer Structural Borrowing in Burmese. <i>Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society</i>, pp. 258-267. (Republished in LaPolla, Randy J. (ed.), <i>Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, V. II: Language Contact and Areal Features,</i> 228-236. London & NY: Routledge.)</div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Donegan, Patricia and Stampe, David. 2004. Rhythm
and the synthetic drift of Munda. In </span><span style="font-style:italic;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Rajendra Singh (ed.), </span><i><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/YSALL-B/html" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:white">The Yearbook of South Asian Languages
and Linguistics</span></a>,</i> 3-36. Berlin: De Gruyter. <span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,79,102);background-color:white"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110179897.3" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110179897.3</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Matisoff, James A. 2001. Genetic versus contact relationship: Prosodic diffusibility in South-East Asian languages. In A. Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. Dixon (eds.), <i>Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance,</i> 291-327. </p><div>Randy</div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 19 Aug 2021, at 7:14 PM, Guillaume Jacques <<a href="mailto:rgyalrongskad@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgyalrongskad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><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 id="gmail-m_5413409803529064765gmail-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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>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>
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</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
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strings of light syllables. Any examples or suggested
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