A’ingae syllabic weight and its two dimensions in lexical stress assignment
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
April 2019
 

There are two dimensions of syllabic weight in A'ingae (or Cofán, an Amazonian language isolate, ISO 639-3: con): Diphthongs make for heavy syllables and glottal stops trigger foot construction before parsing.
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