Re: *Another* natlang question (this one is short)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:


> Maybe with a secondary stress but personnally I always heard adverbs in -mente
> stressed on their next-to-last syllable, with maybe a secondary stress due to
> their length...
Well, since there really are only two levels of stress in Spanish
(stressed and weak), an adverb like solamente is stressed as if
written sola mente, which is consistent with what both of us said.

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