If unstressed syllables follow, they often have a falling intonation, but this is not a rule.

The syllables in Maidu follow a basic CV or CVC structure.

Compound words of three syllables, however, follow the stress of the constituent words:

Generally, syllables follow after the dash which must undergo tone sandhi.

It often happens that some syllables follow the tonic syllable.

If caesura is followed by three syllables, the last syllable i.e. at end of line, is long, if four syllables follow it is short.

Trisyllabic laxing: Shortening of stressed vowels when two syllables followed.

The weakest stress occurs when a syllable is not stressed and follows immediately after a phonemic juncture.

However, the odd syllables in lục bát verses don't have to follow the rule, but the even syllables must follow the rule.

Here stressed and unstressed syllables follow one after the other.