Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> Philip Newton skrev:
>...
>  >> The snag is that in Swedish length can occur only
>  >> combined with (primary or secondary) stress.
>  >
>  > Same here.
>
> Good to see the Germanic languages are not wholly
> split up yet! :-)
When I read that, I thought I remembered that there was at least a
derivational affix that would be unstressed long, but apparently,
either there is indeed none, or I simply cannot come up with it now.
The only ones I find now have secondary stress (like -los /,lo:s/
'-less').  And when the affix has stress like un- /'?Un/
'un-/in-/im-/il-/ir-', then the stem has secondary stress.  Hmm, I was
*really* sure I had found some once.

Anyway, if there was one, it would be an exception to the general
rule...

>..
>  > (Except in loanwords, which can have "half-long" vowels
>
> And you are sure those are not secondary stressed? ...
Yes, definitely unstressed.  E.g. _Krokodil_ /,kro:ko:'di:l/.
(well, I have /,krOko:'di:l/, but anyway).

**Henrik