Accent is considered a feature of the entire syllable rather than of the nucleus only. One accent occurs with each syllable. Note that the functional load of accent is light—only some 40 lexical pairs with contrastive accents have been found, and few grammatical contrasts are marked by accent alone. Syntax Munduruku is an OV language. See also Munduruku people References External links Mundurukú (Intercontinental Dictionary Series) TuLaR (Tupian Languages Resources) Languages of Brazil Indigenous languages of South America