> Hi Luca.
Hi Dirk!
> I snipped the diagrams; they didn't seem to line up correctly in
> my monowidth world.
Argh!
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Mangiat wrote:
>
> > GENERAL RULE: final syllables are not moraic (thus they can never get
> > stressed), unless they contain a long vowel or a diphtong.
> >
> > The right-most foot gets stressed:
> >
> > IRMANDEN
> >
> > /ir'manden/
> >
> > KASIKULA
> >
> > /ka'sikula/
> >
> > Final syllables containing a long vowel / a diphthong are always
stressed:
> >
> > AMNIPAI
> >
> > /amni'pai/
> >
> > INTUUT
> >
> > /in'tu:t/
> >
> > Would it be better expressing the general rule in these terms: the last
foot
> > is stressed (considering the abovementioned foots to be respectively a
> > trochee, a dactylus, a hiambus and a spondee?).
>
> No need to invoke the classical foot typology. What it looks
> like to me is that you have a system in which coda consonants
> are not moraic, and that the stress falls on the penultimate
> mora.
With the exception of long vowels / dophthongs in dinal position which I
like, but seems to strike the system...
> If you really like having feet, you could describe this system
> as one which builds a moraic trochee (sequence of two morae
> where the first is prominent) at the right edge of the word.
>
> > And what do you think of this system?
>
> It's simple, elegant, and subtle in the interplay of final and
> non-final stress.
Thanks!
Luca