Datapoint for feature 14A and language wals_code_bqs
Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 14A and language wals_code_bqs.
Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 14A and language wals_code_bqs.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 6:38 pm by wals and is filed under Basque (Sakana), Fixed Stress Locations. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
September 28th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I wonder why Basque was assigned the feature \first stress\. Hualde & Urbina (2003: 65) point out \Usually the stress falls on the second syllable of the word or the phrase, frequently with secondary prominence on the last syllable [...]. Bisyllabic words ending in a wowel receive initial stress instead [...]. But, as mentioned, stress is not phonologically contrastive and may also fall on other syllables\.