[Lingtyp] languages without feet?

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Hello all,

In Caroline Féry's excellent *Prosodic Structure and Intonation*, she
describes a class of "phrase languages", identified as languages whereby
there isn't much going on at the level of the prosodic word.

I was wondering if anyone had *described* explicitly a language where the
same thing could be said of feet (neither iambic or trochaic)? Or perhaps
even more radically, not just that the feet don't do much, but that they
aren't there at all?

Perhaps there's lots  of cases where feet haven't been proposed, are there
any cases where they had been proposed, but then further research (perhaps
some phonetic study) found that there was no evidence for them?

best,

Adam

-- 
Adam J.R. Tallman
Post-doctoral Researcher
Friedrich Schiller Universität
Department of English Studies
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