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===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
There were two major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Hebrew to Druidic Canaanite:
There was a major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Hebrew to Druidic Canaanite:


# First, stress changed to penultimate for nouns ending in feminine ''-ā'' and plural suffixes: ''ȝarabā́'' > ''ȝarábā''.
# Stress shifted to penultimate for nouns ending in feminine ''-ā'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with verbs.
# After the first stress shift was completed, if a stressed, open syllable with a short vowel was followed by a syllable with a long or overlong vowel, then the stress shifted one syllable to the left (if there was a syllable to the left): ''ȝarábā'' > ''ȝárabā''.
# By analogy, stress shifted to penultimate for nouns ending in a plural suffix ''-īm'', '''', or ''-ōδ''.


====Intonation====
====Intonation====