Re: Blah blah blah natlangs

From: "Adrian Morgan" <morg0072@...>
>I still have to think twice about stress
>being marked at the beginning of the
>syllable. In most dictionaries I've seen,
>stress is marked after the syllable, which
>makes more sense to me because the slant of
>an apostrophe points backwards, not forwards.
Which is, I suppose, all right, since the IPA stress mark doesn't slant at
all. ;)

Me, I think the stress-before is more sensible -- presumably you'll want to
know how the syllable is stressed before you start pronouncing it, eh? ;)


    *Muke!

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