Knudsen, Ebbe Egede, “Stress in Akkadian,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1980), pp. 3-16.

The focus of contemporary linguistics on spoken language seems to have increased the interest in phonetics among scholars of dead languages. I myself am fascinated by the question of how much phonetic info we can squeeze out of these texts. In this article, Knudsen analyzes the letters of Hammurapi to determine whether the stress pattern [...]