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====Stress==== Stress in Yuchi is fairly regular. All major parts of speech have syllable-final stress, and syllable-initial secondary stress{{clarify|reason=does this mean word-final stress, and word-initial secondary stress?|date=November 2011}}; also, particles (one-syllable words) are stressed. There are some minimal pairs to be found due to stress; some representative samples include: :{{IPA|[ˈɡopʼa]}} – "Creek person, tribe"{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=85}} :{{IPA|[ɡoˈpʼa]}} – "go see someone"{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=85}} :{{IPA|[ˈsɛt ˀne]}} – he sees{{sfn|Edmondson|2011}} :{{IPA|[sɛt ˈˀne]}} – she sees{{sfn|Edmondson|2011}} :{{IPA|[ʃaˈja]}} – "weeds"{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=85}} :{{IPA|[ˈʃaja]}} – "squirrel"{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=85}} As mentioned above, most nouns have syllable-final primary stress{{clarify|reason=again, by syllable does this mean word or morphological unit?|date=November 2011}}; there are, however, some regularized exceptions to this rule, the most common of which are nouns with lexicalized suffixes in the stem, which have stress on the penultimate syllable. Also, contractions within compounded nouns have primary stress on the contraction. There are various other exceptions, but the two mentioned above are the most frequent and the most important in helping us to understand why Yuchi nouns often appear to have irregular stress patterns.{{sfn|Linn|2001|pp=86-87}} Both regular and non-regular stress patterns are exemplified below, all glossed. All data come from Wagner{{who|date=January 2025}}, 1974, unless otherwise noted. :{{IPA|[ɡojalinɛʔ]}} – young man :{{IPA|[jacɛsiʔ]}}{{clarify|date=January 2012|reason=what is "c"?}} – sparks of fire :{{IPA|[tsɛʔ]}} – water :{{IPA|[saʔ]}} – earth :{{IPA|[tsoonɔʔ]}} – the sun :{{IPA|[ʔaˈɡale]}} ~ {{IPA|[aɡæle]}} – today, morning{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=87}} :{{IPA|[tsɛˈkʰale]}} – misty rain{{sfn|Linn|2001|p=87}} :{{IPA|[kʼɔndi]}} – meat Verb stems typically have primary stress on the ultimate syllable, as well. The two major exceptions are reduplicated verbs, which have equal stress on both the last and reduplicated syllables of the stem, and verb compounds with the head root {{IPA|/ju/}}, in which primary stress is syllable-initial. Some examples include: :{{IPA|[ɡetaʔ]}} – to hold it up{{CN|date=January 2024}}<!-- No such work defined in the article{{sfn|Wagner|1974}}--> :{{IPA|[taʔtaʔ]}} – light{{sfn|Edmondson|2011}}
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