[Lingtyp] languages without word level stress

[Miren Lourdes Oñederra Olaizola]

Echoing Ian Maddieson's caveat ("It depends on what you mean by “no  
stress”) I would dare to say that also some Basque dialects might be  
included. The weak linguistic role of accent has long been accepted  
(mainly established by Luis Michelena). On the other hand, from an  
applied perspective, it is one of the informal rules given to Spanish  
speakers acquiring Basque as L2: forget about giving an accent to  
every word and "sing" phrases (NP, VP).

Best,
mlo
Annika Tjuka <mail at annikatjuka.com> erabiltzaileak idatzi du:

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> Southern Vietnamese is  considered to have no word-level stress (see  
> Brunelle, 2017). Nevertheless, the author also points out that there  
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> 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
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> ---- Ein Do, 17 Okt 2019 15:44:35 +0200 TALLMAN Adam  
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> This is just a query for sources.
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> 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  
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> To be clear, I mean stress in Hyman's sense of a single culminative  
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> (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).
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> Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)
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