[Lingtyp] languages without word level stress

[Eva Lindström]

Dear Adam, I think you will find that Kuot meets the requirements; please
see:

Lindström, Eva & Remijsen, Bert. 2005. “Aspects of the prosody of Kuot, a
language where intonation ignores stress”. *Linguistics* 43:4, 839–870

Best,

Eva

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 15:45, TALLMAN Adam <Adam.TALLMAN at cnrs.fr> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> This is just a query for sources.
>
> I'm looking for languages that have been explicitly described as having no
> word-level stress. I was under the impression that this was fairly common,
> but apparently the existence of such languages (e.g. French) is
> controversial [?].
>
> To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative and
> obligatory marking of prominence.
>
> (After that, I'm wondering whether there have been cases of languages that
> are described as containing neither word-level nor phrase-level stress in
> the same sense).
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
>
> Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)
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