UD Phonology Lab Stress Pattern Database
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This database presents atheoretical descriptions of the documented dominant stress patterns of the world's languages. This is accomplished in a few ways:
- by presenting an English prose description of the placement of stress
- by extending Bailey's (1995) Syllable Priority Code system to handle secondary stress and
- by including a finite-state automaton representation of each stress pattern.
The database also includes results of the Forward Backward Neighborhood Learner (Heinz 2007). The stress patterns in the database are collected primarily from the typologies of Gordon (2002) and Bailey (1995). There are 422 languages and 109 distinct stress patterns included in the database.
This database is open source (MySQL) and freely available. If you have questions about any of the information in the database, or if you find errors, please send any questions or corrections, etc. to Jeff Heinz.