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In languages whose syllables are of roughly equal length, how is stress typically indicated?
In languages whose syllables are approximately equal in length, how is stress typically indicated?
Stress in English is typically indicated by any or all of the following: length, loudness, an ...
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What is the difference between syllable-timing and stress-timing?
From what I've heard, syllable-timed languages have syllables of equal length throughout each breath-group (i.e. bit of spoken discourse said in one breath), and stress-timed languages have ...
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Latin stress rules: exceptions
Do the Latin stress rules (antepenultimate if penultimate is light, penultimate if heavy) have any known exceptions? Also, sometimes the rule assigns antepenultimate stress to a syllable belonging to ...
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Do any languages have different syllable weight criteria for primary and secondary stress?
Some languages count the same syllable as "light" or "heavy" depending on the phonological process in question. For example, in Lhasa Tibetan, a CVC syllable ending in a sonorant is heavy for tone ...
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Is it common to use the minor third for calling someone?
In German, calling someone's two-syllable name is tied very strongly to the minor third.
In languages that like to have a stressed last syllable, I would expect the last syllable to be higher than ...
