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Today we talk all about word-level stress systems, a part of your conlang that can be done in a few minutes or have you stressing for many days, weeks, or maybe months. It all comes down to what kind of stress system you go with.
Top of Show Greeting: Modern Standard Arabic (translated and read by Aysar Aburrub)
Links and Resources
- Dirk Elzinga’s post about feet
- Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Weight-Sensitive Stress. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Rhythm Types. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Revithiadou, Anthoula (1999) A Typology of Stress Systems. In Headmost Accent Wins: Head Dominance and Ideal Prosodic Form in Lexical Accent Systems, 11–39.
- Schiering, René, and Harry van der Hulst (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Asia. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
- van der Hulst, Harry (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Europe. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
George’s Theory-Heavy Links
- Halle, Morris and William Idsardi (1994). General properties of stress and metrical structure. Language computations, ed. by Eric Sven Ristad, 37-69.
- Halle, Morris (1998) The Stress of English Words 1968–1998.” Linguistic Inquiry 29 (4)
John Hutchinson
Another English example of unstressed consonant reduction: in North-East England English (certainly in Geordie) all unvoiced stops are debuccalized [di.ˈbʊ.ʔɐ.ˌlaɪ̯zd] in unstressed syllables. Also, the article on Japanese pitch accent on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent) has a short section on how some dialects it corresponds with the mora, and in others with the syllable.
wm.annis
Useful information, thank you.
Creyeditor
I can also really recommend the Papuan Volume of the “survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world” series, because Papuan languages are really diverse.