Re: "Double stressed" words

 --- "Mark J. Reed" ha tera a:

> I don't know of any natlangs that have
> identical stress in more than one syllable, but not all syllables,
within > a single "word", but I would not be surprised to learn of
their
> existence. :)
Sechelt (a Salish language from the west coast of British Columbia,
Canada) seems to allow multiple main stresses on a word.  Some examples
(acute accent marks stress; I hope it comes through okay):

sk'ík'ák    "crow"

tsítsiyím   "work"

tsétsítsiyím   "working"


-Estel

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