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Dismantling the universal prosodic hierarchy with possible evidence for the absence of syllables

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Abstract

This commentary offers evidence for three general language types that may lack evidence for syllables as prosodic constituents: mora-dominant languages; foot-dominant languages; and word-dominant languages. It also highlights the important role of native-speaker judgements in identifying these language types.


Corresponding author: Juliette Blevins, Linguistics Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA, E-mail:

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