Re: Syllable Structure, Syllable Weight, Rhythm, Stress

Thank you, Dirk and Vertical.  Those are very helpful.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:50:01 -0600, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
wrote:

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>...The available stress window seems to be three-deep from the end. (Only
>two-deep from the beginning, and languages with regular second-
>{syllable|mora} stress are vanishingly rare; Hopi and Chemehuevi/Southern
>Paiute being two of them.)
< http://wals.info/feature/14 >
lists Winnebago as third-syllable primary stress (weight-insensitive), and lists
16 languages with second-syllable primary stress (weight-insensitive), out of
502 languages for which this feature was analyzed.

As far as the primary stress goes, a first-mora-stress is indistinguishable from
a first-syllable-stress.
But a second-mora-stress would stress the first syllable if the first syllable is
heavy, but the second syllable if the first syllable is light.
And a third-mora-stress would stress the second syllable if either of the first
two syllables is heavy, but the third syllable if both of the first two syllables
are light.
See < http://wals.info/feature/description/15 >

< http://wals.info/feature/15 >
lists 2 languages with weight-sensitive stress on the third mora; Kashaya and
Laragia.
It lists 37 languages with weight-sensitive stress on the second mora.

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The rest of what you said was brand new to me, and informative, helpful, and
above all _interesting_.  Thanks.