Re: OT: YAEPT: emphasis

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On 6/22/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> > I'm really bad at questions of stress, at least which of two stressed
> > syllables bares the primary stress.
>
> I know several other people who say the same, and I totally fail to
> understand it.  To me, stress is such an obvious component of
> pronunciation.
I'm one of those for whom stress is fairly non-obvious, particularly in
languages that don't abuse unstressed syllables quite as horribly as English.

What *really* gets me, tho, is the Swedish distinction between acute and grave
accent (AKA tone 1 and tone 2). The thought of learning a properly tonal
language is quite intimidating.

Unsurprisingly, my conlangs tend simple stress systems and no tones.

                                                      Andreas