Category:North-South stress variation
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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.
| Northern | Southern | ||
| ʔəca | ʔə ca | ʔəcə | ʔə cə |
| bədaʔ | bə daʔ | bədəʔ | bə dəʔ |
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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