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===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
There was a major stress shift away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Hebrew to Druidic Canaanite:
There were major stress shifts away from final stress from Pre-Exilic Hebrew to Druidic Canaanite, eventually resulting in unconditional initial stress.


# Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ā'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ā''.
# Stress shifted to penultimate for feminine singular nouns ending in ''-ā'' in adjectives, then nouns, by analogy with the unstressed 3SG.F perfect affix ''-ā''.