Re: Analyzing Phonology
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 21:16 |
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And Rosta scripsit:
> I tried this & it caused all sorts of conniptions. Simplifying the
> phonological details, the rules of Livagian make the first syllable
> tonic. But I also decreed that any glossolalic forms I produced in
> my quest for Livagian words would be kosher Livagian. And the
> european in me produced forms with noninitial and/or multiple tonics.
Well, as I have been saying, English is a penultimate-stress-default language,
and the more alien the vocable, the more likely it is to get penultimate stress.
So it's not surprising. I find it quite hard to remember that xuxuxi is an
initial-stress language, and find the stress moving down the word all the time.
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