Editing Proto-Semitic language (section)

===[[Prosody (linguistics)|Prosody]]===
Proto-Semitic is reconstructed as having non-phonemic stress on the third [[Mora (linguistics)|mora]] counted from the end of the word,<ref>{{cite book|author=Kogan L.|title=The Semitic languages|chapter=Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology|place=Berlin — Boston|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=2011|pages=124|isbn=978-3-11-018613-0}}</ref> i.e. on the second syllable from the end, if it has the structure ''CVC'' or ''CVː'' (where ''C'' is any consonant and ''V'' is any vowel), or on the third syllable from the end, if the second one had the structure ''CV''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Huehnergard J.|title=The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia|chapter=Afro-Asiatic|place=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|pages=232|isbn=978-0-511-39338-9}}</ref>