Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

If a noun phrase contains one of the quantifiers birtakım ‘some’, ‘a number of’, biraz ‘a
little’ and bir miktar ‘some’, ‘a certain amount of’ (15.6.1 (ii)), but no adjectives, stress
falls on the noun:
(143) bir miktar şeKER
‘some sugar’
If a noun phrase contains any of the other indefinite determiners in 15.6.1 (other than bir
‘a(n)’), a definite determiner (15.6.2) or a numeral (15.7), this constituent is stressed:
(144) {[sorusu olan] HER öğrenci}
‘every student who has a question’
The noun phrase 169
Note that these rules apply to noun phrases in isolation. When a noun phrase is uttered
inside a sentence it may not be stressed at all, or it may be stressed on a different syllable.
For the properties of sentence stress see Chapters 5 and 23.