This paper examines the relationship between typology and historical linguistics through a case study from the history of Armenian, where two different stress systems are found in the modern language. The first is a penult system with no associated secondary stress ([… σ́σ]_ω). The other, the so-called hammock pattern, has primary stress on the final syllable and secondary stress on the initial syllable of the prosodic word ([σ̀ … σ́]_ω). Although penult stress patterns are by far more typologically common than the hammock pattern in the world’s languages, I will argue that the hammock pattern must be reconstructed for the period of shared innovation, the Proto-Armenian period.

本文通过对亚美尼亚历史的个案研究来考察类型学与历史语言学之间的关系，在亚美尼亚人的历史中，现代语言中发现了两种不同的重音系统。第一个是没有相关的二次应力（[…σ́σ] _ω）的下沉系统。另一种，即所谓的吊床模式，在韵律词（[σ̀…σ́] _ω）的最终音节上具有主要应力，而在初始音节上具有次级应力。尽管在压折应力模式上在类型上远比世界上各种语言的吊床模式更为普遍，但我将指出，吊床模式必须在共同创新的时期（即原始亚美尼亚时期）进行重构。