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* In words with no long vowels, the third-to-last syllable is stressed, unless the fourth-to-last is the stressed part of a verbal root;

* Compound words have secondary stress on each vowel that would have primary stress if it were an isolated word, except if immediately preceding another (primarily or secondarily) stressed vowel; in that case, the stress moves one syllable backwards unless it would lead to another such situation of consecutive stress (e.g. */ˌSSˌSˈSS/ → /ˌSSSˈSS/ and not **/ˌSˌSSˈSS/).

Some examples of stress placement:

* ''dilṭha'' "desert" [ˈdʲiɴ̆ʈʰa]

* ''upānāraḍa'' "seminary" [upaːˈnaːʀaɖa]

* ''ñulge'' "to crawl (monodirectional)" [ˈɲuŋge]

* ''ñogė'' "(s)he/it crawls" [ˈɲogeː]

* ''ñoganāja'' "we crawled" [ˌɲogaˈnaːɟ͡ʑa]

* ''driturkye'' "[I've been told that] (it) was done against you" [ˈdʀʲituˤkje]

* ''sågnstrausis'' "tunnel" [sɔgnˈstʀaʊ̯sʲis]

* ''sågnstraustammikeika'' "tunnel railway station" [ˌsɔgnstʀaʊ̯sˌtammʲiˈkeɪ̯ka]

Words with unpredictable stress often have regional variations. For example, ''tandayena'' "spring (season)" is stressed as [tandaˈjena] in most of the East and Northeast but as regular [tanˈdajena] almost anywhere else (in this particular case, the irregular stress is actually closer to the etymology, as it is a borrowing from a Kans-Tsan compound word).

====Intonation====

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 * In words with no long vowels, the third-to-last syllable is stressed, unless the fourth-to-last is the stressed part of a verbal root;
 * Compound words have secondary stress on each vowel that would have primary stress if it were an isolated word, except if immediately preceding another (primarily or secondarily) stressed vowel; in that case, the stress moves one syllable backwards unless it would lead to another such situation of consecutive stress (e.g. */ˌSSˌSˈSS/ → /ˌSSSˈSS/ and not **/ˌSˌSSˈSS/).
+Some examples of stress placement:
+* ''dilṭha'' "desert" [ˈdʲiɴ̆ʈʰa]
+* ''upānāraḍa'' "seminary" [upaːˈnaːʀaɖa]
+* ''ñulge'' "to crawl (monodirectional)" [ˈɲuŋge]
+* ''ñogė'' "(s)he/it crawls" [ˈɲogeː]
+* ''ñoganāja'' "we crawled" [ˌɲogaˈnaːɟ͡ʑa]
+* ''driturkye'' "[I've been told that] (it) was done against you" [ˈdʀʲituˤkje]
+* ''sågnstrausis'' "tunnel" [sɔgnˈstʀaʊ̯sʲis]
+* ''sågnstraustammikeika'' "tunnel railway station" [ˌsɔgnstʀaʊ̯sˌtammʲiˈkeɪ̯ka]
+Words with unpredictable stress often have regional variations. For example, ''tandayena'' "spring (season)" is stressed as [tandaˈjena] in most of the East and Northeast but as regular [tanˈdajena] almost anywhere else (in this particular case, the irregular stress is actually closer to the etymology, as it is a borrowing from a Kans-Tsan compound word).
 ====Intonation====