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# Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ā'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ā''. | # Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ā'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ā''. | ||
# By analogy, stress shifted to penultimate for nouns ending in a plural suffix ''-īm'', ''-ē'', or ''-ōδ''. | # By analogy, stress shifted to penultimate for nouns ending in a plural suffix ''-īm'', ''-ē'', or ''-ōδ''. | ||
# Stress became uniformly initial, except for proclitics. "Vowel errors" in | # Stress became uniformly initial, except for proclitics. "Vowel errors" in surviving texts suggest that at first this was done deliberately as a stylized way to chant incantations. | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||