Luca Mangiat wrote:
>I'm actually working at a 'skeleton' which should work as Senquarian's
>ancestral language. I'd like the stress system to work on moraic
principles.
>Could you professional linguists/phonologists take a look at this, please?
Not sure I count as a professional anymore-- having forgotten much, and not
very familiar with the system you're using here ;-( -- but:
>
>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:
How is "foot" defined?
>
>IRMANDEN
>| | | |
>µ (µ µ)µ
>| \ / /
>s s s
>/ir'manden/
I see this; apparently a closed syllable is 2 moras; or at least -CVn-, as
in Japanese.....
>
>KASIKULA
> | | | |
> µ(µ µ)µ
> | | | |
> s s s s
>/ka'sikula/
Not sure I see this; why not /kasi'kula/? surely, discounting -la, -ku- is
the rightmost foot??
>Final syllables containing a long vowel / a diphthong are always stressed:
Yes; these are clear.
Can long vowels/diphthongs occur other than finally? what happens if they
can?
What would happen if item #1 were /irmaden/-- 'irmaden, I'd guess.
This strikes me as more a "light CV vs. heavy CVC syllable" system-- but I
suspect that's just moras by another name.....
Rule 1: a diphthong/long V in the ultima is stressed, otherwise--
Rule 2: a heavy penult (-CVC-) is stressed, otherwise--
Rule 3: stress the antepenult (no matter whether heavy or light)