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

>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 ...

                                                        Andreas
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