Re: OT: YAEPT: emphasis

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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