Re: HELP: Deciding on Prosody?
| From: | Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 12, 1998, 20:41 |
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As I have revealed in my last post, what is keeping me from further
> developing the Lumanesian languages is the dilemma I have with
> deciding the prosody of Lumanesian.
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That's incredible : I had exactly the same dilemma with my own conlangs that had so
few phonems. The only solution I found then was to do what natlangs never do :
keep the stress on the 1st syllable of the root-word and add a *blank* vowel
(for example a schwa) or a anti-stress tone where ambiguity requires so.
Otherwise I would never had come out of that issue. And I valued sanity quite
much (then... ;-).
Your fellow conlanger
Mathias
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