Prosody in Indonesian languages: Concluding remarks
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2007-11
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Heuven, Vincent J. van
Zanten, Ellen van
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"A fair amount of research has been done on the prosody of European/Western languages. In contrast, prosodic descriptions of non-Western languages have been rare. As Goedemans (to appear) notices, at the start of the Prosody of Indonesian Languages (PIL) project South-East Asian languages were seriously under-represented in the StressTyp database for stress systems (Goedemans & van Zanten this volume, and references therein). For instance, of the estimated 750 so-called Papuan languages only 41 were included in StressTyp"