Re: Analyzing Phonology

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:


> 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.

Praxian stress turns out to be very flexible.