Re: Tj'a-ts'a~n stress pattern

Christopher Grandsire wrote:
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>        Now, here are my questions:
>- what do you think of this stress pattern?
>- do you know any conlang or natlang that uses also a stress of
>length (I'm not talking about languages that have phonemic long
>vowels and that stress words on those vowels, but about languages
>that _phonetically_ realize stress as lengthening vowels)?
I have read about bantu languages that lengthen the vowels in
stressed syllables. According to the "Compendium of the World's
Languages" by George Campbell, Zulu has regular stress on the
penultimate syllable and this contains a long vowel. But during an
agglutinative build-up of suffixes, the stress moves progressively
to the right prompting the vowel lengthening process to move
progressively to the right as well. Below are examples taken from
the same book:

Bo:na
Boni:sa
Bonaka:la

I hope that helps,
-Kristian- 8-)