| Summary: | StressTyp stands for Stress Typology. StressTyp is a database containing information about word-level stress patterns of (some of) the languages of the world. Work on StressTyp began in 1992 as a pilot project of EUROTYP (1990-1994) , a project on the typology of European languages, financed by the European Science Foundation (ESF). In october 1997, work on the Prosody in Indonesian Languages (PIL) project started. StressTyp was integrated in this project to ensure its continuation, and to provide an output platform for the information on the prosodies of Indonesian languages that will be gathered by the project's researchers. The first goal of StressTyp was to offer a quick entry to the primary and secondary literature on stress sy stems of the languages of the world. All stress properties of languages were encoded to facilitate searches for grammars of languages with certain stress properties. This coding system has started to lead a life of its own and has made it possible to sear ch through the database for the occurrence of (combinations of) quite specific stress parameters. Through the search facilities that come with any database, StressTyp can now be instrumental in testing and developing typological hypotheses on stress, whic h has become its primary function. It has been expanded with geographical information to allow searches for areal patterning. For more information on the content see: Goedemans, R.W.N., H.G. van der Hulst and E. Visch (1996). Stress Patterns of the Wor ld. Part 1: Background. HIL Publications 2. HAG: The hague.
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