Re: Pitch

Hello,

> Interesting, in Welsh itself the regular (dynamic) stress in words of
> two or more syllables is on the last-syllable-but-one. However the
> FINAL syllable has a distinct PITCH accent
There' s a short 'paper' on Welsh stress online

http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/AppendixE.html

[...]
>
> Follow the links relating to poetry from
> http://www.geocities.com/~dubricius/
> for more information.
Nifty!

> Presumably the penult is lowered slightly in pitch in anticipation of
> the following rise, or maybe it's just a contrast effect. Interesting
> that such a pattern could survive a change of language.
Well, Welsh stress seems very consistent throughout - they had their
accents on the penult, then lost the ultima and then they moved it one
syllable back and it was on the penult again! They had a deep-rooted
preference for penultimate stress, since they returned to it after the
Middle Welsh accent-final period! :-))

Pavel
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