Re: Stress placement systems

On 9/19/06, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> 2a.  How does secondary stress work, cross-linguistically?  I think
> in all of the cases of languages having secondary stress I know of,
> secondary stress placement is determined by first finding the primary
> stress and then moving a certain number of syllables before and after
> it.  What other systems are there for secondary stress placement?
The "obvious" case would be in compounds words, which might have
primary stress in the same position as the primary stress of one of
the compounds (say, the last one) and secondary stress(es) in the same
position as the primary stress(es) of the other compound(s).

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>