Conlangery #123: Stress Systems

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)