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Re: OT: YAEPT: emphasis

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, June 22, 2006, 14:14
Hi!

Mark J. Reed:
> 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. And it drive me nuts when I encounter words stressed > in an unnatural way - to make them fit into the rhythm of a poem or > song lyric, for instance. Total cheating.
Same here. My brain screams in agony when I hear mis-stressed words (in the view of my brain) even if they are valid pronunciations in German. My speech center only accepts my stress own rules, this egocentric beast.
>... > "Permit? I don't need any damned permits! How can you get a damned > permit to do a damned illegal thing?!" > > Throughout the above he consistently says /p@r'mIt/, rather than > /'p@r.mIt/. And at least IML, the noun is always the latter; the > former is the verb.
Ouch. Even my L2 brain screams in agony here. What have I learned the difference for, after all? :-P (To me, "One per'mit" sounds like a constructed word denoting one event of permitting.) **Henrik

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