UD Phonology Lab Stress Pattern Database
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Arabic, Classical
Ethnologue code(s): arbThis language has a quantity-sensitive unbounded stress system.
Primary stress pattern
SPC: 1/23..89/9R
In words of all sizes, primary stress falls on the final syllable if it is superheavy, else on the right-most non-final heavy syllable, else on the final syllable.
Secondary stress pattern
SPC: None
In words of all sizes, there is no secondary stress. This is deliberately ambiguous between "none reported" in a source and "verifiably none".
Syllable Weight Hierarchy
| W0 | W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 |
| V | VX | VXC |
Relevant phonotactics
As far as we know, there is no relevant phonotactic information for this language.
Sources
- Bailey, Todd M. 1995. Nonmetrical Constraints on Stress. Doctoral dissertation, Univerisity of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.
- Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- McCarthy, John. 1979. On Stress and Syllabification. Linguistic Inquiry 10, 443-465.
Finite State Acceptors - Arabic_Classical Pattern
The format for the acceptors below is start states, final states, and transitions.
The labels indicate the syllable weight and level of stress.
For example, w0.s2 means a syllable of weight 0 with primary stress; w1.s1 means a
syllable of weight 1 with secondary stress and so on.
The Tail Canonical Acceptor
| states | transitions | initial | final |
| 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 |
This acceptor is 1-1 neighborhood-distinct.
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0 0,1,w0.s2 0,1,w1.s2 0,1,w2.s2 0,3,w0.s0 0,3,w1.s0 0,3,w2.s0 1,1,w0.s0 1,2,w1.s0 3,1,w2.s2 3,3,w0.s0 3,3,w1.s0 3,3,w2.s0 3,4,w1.s2 4,1,w0.s0 4,2,w1.s0 1,2 |
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The Head Canonical Acceptor
| states | transitions | initial | final |
| 4 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
This acceptor is 1-1 neighborhood-distinct.
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0,3 0,1,w0.s2 0,2,w0.s2 0,2,w1.s2 1,1,w0.s0 1,2,w0.s0 1,2,w1.s0 3,1,w1.s2 3,1,w2.s2 3,2,w2.s2 3,3,w0.s0 3,3,w1.s0 3,3,w2.s0 2 |
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Stress Pattern Generator
In order to use the Stress Pattern Generator, use numbers between 0 and 2 delimited by spaces in the box below. These numbers represent syllables in a word. The number corresponds to the weight of the syllable, 0 being the lightest, and 2 being the heaviest. When the "Find Stress" Button is clicked, a new page will open with the stresses for the word indicated.
Example input:
A three syllable word in a language with weight of 2 and the heaviest syllable being the middle would be represented as "0 1 0".
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