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

John Cowan wrote:
> One more rule:  words ending in -mente are stressed as if the -mente were
> a separate word (which historically it was).
Actually, according to my dictionary, the stress is on the -mente.  It
says:
Adjectives that have a written accent retain the accent when adding
-mente to form adverbs, even though the stress shifts to the syllable
before the last: fácilmente, últimamente, cortésmente

Tho in another section it says the "principal stress moves to the
penultimate syllable", suggesting that there might be a secondary
stress.

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