1897-1059 On accent in the Italic languages: nature, position, and history Nishimura Kanehiro author Kyoto University 02kpeqv85 Correspondence to: Kanehiro Nishimura nishimura.kanehiro.6e@kyoto-u.ac.jp 30 06 2014 Volume 131, Issue 2 2014 161 192 Copyright © 2014 2014 <p>The Italic languages show a number of cases of vowel reduction and deletion. When working on the actual data, it is crucial to understand the role that accent played in such phonological changes. As for the qualitative nature of Italic accent, recent typological studies suggest that the Italic accent most likely had a dominant stress nature, rather than pitch nature, in the period when vowel reduction and deletion took place. The fact that these changes occurred primarily in non-initial syllables strongly supports the hypothesis that initial syllables were consistently stressed at some point in the history of Italic. Objections to this theory should thus be rejected as groundless. 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