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Syllables and word-stress in Hindi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

W. E. Jones
W. E. Jones
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(University of Edinburgh)
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Although Hindi is a major world-language, with well over a hundred million speakers, the description of its prosodic features has been neglected. Like most other present-day Indo-European languages, it is a non-tone language, with sentence intonation and a stress accent. Stress occurs on syllables within words (word-stress) and on words within sentences (sentence-stress). By confining ourselves in the first instance to single-word utterances we may formulate some rules for word-stress, as a preliminary to a discussion of sentence-stress and intonation.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1971 , pp. 74 - 78
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1971

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