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Stress marking (was: Re: CONLANG Digest - 14 Oct 2000(maglangs plea!))

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 1:18
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I've always liked Spanish for that: you never wonder where stress is
It's often redundant, even, with a knowledge of Spanish morphology. Like, -ico always causes antepenult stress (lógico, for example). :-)
> And a last one in Reman: 'h' in Reman marks the semi-vowel /j/!
Interesting. How did <h> come to represent /j/? -- Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor