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   The Role of Stress and Accentuation
   Stress often targets a specific syllable within a word, defining the metrical peak. The placement of this stress is governed by phonotactic rules, but external linguistic pressures can induce systematic shifts. For instance, in several Semitic languages, the precise alignment of the syllabic boundary relative to the root morpheme is understood to stabilize the internal magnetic field of the …