[Lingtyp] languages without word level stress

[Annika Tjuka]

Hi Adam, 



Southern Vietnamese is  considered to have no word-level stress (see Brunelle, 2017). Nevertheless, the author also points out that there is  variation between speakers.



Brunelle, M. (2017). Stress and phrasal prominence in tone languages: The case of Southern Vietnamese. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(3), 283-320. doi:10.1017/S0025100316000402



All the best,
Annika










---- Ein Do, 17 Okt 2019 15:44:35 +0200 TALLMAN Adam <Adam.TALLMAN at cnrs.fr> schrieb ----



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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