[Lingtyp] languages without word level stress

[Claire Bowern]

However, don't assume that just because a bunch of languages have similar
fixed peripheral location for stress, speakers are doing the same thing.
See Sarah Babinski and my paper from ICPHS (
https://icphs2019.org/icphs2019-fullpapers/; paper 907) for 3 languages
with three different patterns; more recently we have more data, still
finding substantial variation.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:55 PM David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de> wrote:

> Riau Indonesian can be added to the list of languages without word-level
> stress, as argued in:
>
> Gil, David (2006) "Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian", in
> C.M. Lee, M. Gordon, and D. Büring eds., *Topic and Focus,
> Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation*, Studies in
> Linguistics and Philosophy 82, Springer, Dordrecht, 41-68.
>
> Similar facts probably obtain for a large number of languages of western
> Indonesia.  I would concur with Matthew Gordon's comment and suggest that
> the absence of word-level stress is probably under-reported in the world's
> languages.
>
> David
>
>
> On 17/10/2019 16:44, TALLMAN Adam 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
>
>
>
>
>
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