Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

I wrote:
>>How have other people handled stress/accent?
>>
>>YHL
>
>In my "main" conlang Tairezazh, the golden rule is "the first syllable of
>the word stem receives the stress". There's some loanwords that violate
>this
>rule, however, and in some words what originally was a prefix have ceased
>be
>be preceived as a such and then attracted the stress. Eg the adj _ilein_
>"immortal", from _lein_ "mortal", is stressed on the second syllable, but
>the name _Ileina_, derived from this adj, is normally stressed on the first
>nowadays (ie in the "present" of my conuniverse). In compounds, the first
>syllable of the stem of the first component receives the stress.
>
>In Tairezazh's sister language Steianzh (or Steienzh to use its own term),
>the stress is always on the first syllable of a word, and ALL unstressed
>vowels are reduced to schwa. The alphabet these langs are written in have
>no
>sign for schwa, so the sign for "e" is used instead. The words above are in
>Steianzh _lein_, _ilen_, _Ilene_. For obvious reasons, prefices are often
>avoided in Steianzh ...
It's perhaps unnecessary to mention, but both langs of course have
unstressed words too.

                                       Andreas
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