Category:North-South stress variation

Many words with a word-final stress in Northern dialects have a word-initial stress in Southern dialects. In such pairs, there is also often a correspondence between a in Northern dialects and ə in Southern dialects.

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sources

• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, ch. 3