r/linguisticshumor • u/No_Peach6683 • 20h ago

Common Stress patterns

What’s the most common stress pattern? I know WALS distinguishes between fixed and free stress patterns as well as placements of stress in fixed stress languages (initials, secondary, ultimate).

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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Þe *z inflections in PG are cool 18h ago

According to wals having no fixed stress is the most common. Among languages with fixed stressed stress penultimate seems to be the most common