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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
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There were major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic | There were major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Canaanite to Ancient Cubrite, eventually resulting in unconditional initial stress. | ||
# Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ō'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ō''. | # Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ō'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ō''. | ||