Stress Borrowing?
| From: | Eamon Graham <robertg@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 17, 2003, 11:54 |
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Is it a normal or natural thing for languages to change word stress
placement due to contact from surrounding languages? For example,
let's say language X has penultimate stress and language Y and
language Z both have ultimate stress. Would it be usual for
language X to shift the stress to the ultimate syllable?
Cheers,
Eamon
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