Re: Quantity shift (was: Re: Native grammatical terms)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 21, 2003, 20:16 |
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At 20:46 21.11.2003, Isidora Zamora wrote:
>Which gives me an idea for making a related language. I could have this
>language also lose the vowel length distinction, while remembering where
>the stress used to fall before the vowel length distinction was lost. Thus
>this language would move from having fixed stress to free stress. (Or
>something like free stress. There would be a *lot* of words in the
>language with unpredictable stress, but there would also be the underlying
>pattern of penultimate stress shifting to the rightmost heavy syllable, and
>a lot of those heavy syllables would still be identifiable because they are
>made heavy by consonants rather than by the (now vanished) long vowels.)
Whenever you are in doubt about which development to choose,
create another dialect. I'm at four dialects of Sohlob,
not counting the Proto-Language (Kedjeb), and one
cousin-language.
/BP 8^)
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