Joachim KrecherKrecher, J. 1969. Verschlußlaute und Betonung im Sumerischen, in: M. Dietrich, W. Röllig, ed., Lišan mitḥurti (Festschrift Wolfram Freiherr von Soden). Alter Orient und Altes Tetament 1. Neukirchen-Vluyn. 1969. 157–197. attempted to find more clues in texts written phonetically by assuming that geminations, plene spellings and unexpected "stronger" consonant qualities were clues to stress placement. Using this method, he confirmed Falkenstein's views that reduplicated forms were stressed on the first syllable and that there was generally stress on the syllable preceding a (final) suffix/enclitic, on the penultimate syllable of a polysyllabic enclitic such as -/ani/, -/zunene/ etc., on the last syllable of the first member of a compound, and on the first syllable in a sequence of verbal prefixes. However, he found that single verbal prefixes received the stress just as prefix sequences did, and that in most of the above cases, another stress often seemed to be present as well: on the stem to which the suffixes/enclitics were added, on the second compound member in compounds, and possibly on the verbal stem that prefixes were added to or on following syllables. He also did not agree that the stress of monomorphemic words was typically initial and believed to have found evidence of words with initial as well as with final stress;Op.cit. 178-179. in fact, he did not even exclude the possibility that stress was normally stem-final.Op.cit.: 193.
Joachim KrecherKrecher J 1969 Verschlußlaute und Betonung im Sumerischen in M Dietrich W Röllig ed Lišan mitḥurti (Festschrift Wolfram Freiherr von Soden) Alter Orient und Altes Tetament 1 Neukirchen-Vluyn 1969 157–197 attempted to find more clues in texts written phonetically by assuming that geminations plene spellings and unexpected "stronger" consonant qualities were clues to stress placement Using this method he confirmed Falkenstein's views that reduplicated forms were stressed on the first syllable and that there was generally stress on the syllable preceding a (final) suffix/enclitic on the penultimate syllable of a polysyllabic enclitic such as -/ani/ -/zunene/ etc on the last syllable of the first member of a compound and on the first syllable in a sequence of verbal prefixes However he found that single verbal prefixes received the stress just as prefix sequences did and that in most of the above cases another stress often seemed to be present as well on the stem to which the suffixes/enclitics were added on the second compound member in compounds and possibly on the verbal stem that prefixes were added to or on following syllables He also did not agree that the stress of monomorphemic words was typically initial and believed to have found evidence of words with initial as well as with final stress;Opcit 178-179 in fact he did not even exclude the possibility that stress was normally stem-finalOpcit 193