Trochaic reversal regularly occurs in the following word groups (data from Visch 1989, Booij 1995):

Trochaic reversal is largely excluded in compounds whose second constituent consists of disyllabic prosodic words with initial stress, in which the second syllable is not superheavy(4). There are a few exceptions, possibly lexicalized forms (5):

Like iambic reversal, trochaic reversal is generally restricted to words with two stressed syllables, as only syllables with secondary stress in the isolated form are potential carriers of the shifted word stress. Accordingly, it does not occur when the second constituent is a disyllabic prosodic word, as such words have one stressed syllable only: adjacent stressed syllables are prohibited within one prosodic word. A configuration with two adjacent stressed syllables can usually only occur across morpheme boundaries, as e.g. in compounds.

Disyllabic words with unstressed super-heavy finals, which are subject to the stress shifts (see (3)), are an ambiguous category in this respect. Morphologically, they are simplex words as they show no overt morphological complexity, which suggests that the relevant stress patterns are exceptional. Phonologically, on the other hand, they behave like compounds, and they have been analyzed as so-called prosodic compounds in the literature, that is, as words that are morphologically simplex but consist of two prosodic words.