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

(Re Spanish stress) Christophe and many others wrote:
>Exactly like for two-syllable words: regular stress (ie without accent
mark) is
>on:
>- the penultimate for words that end with a vowel, n or s,
>- the last syllable for words that end with a consonnant other than n or s.

Quite so.  "Consonant other than n or s" includes mostly (for native
vocab.):  -r (infinitives, some nouns and adjs.), -l (nouns and adjs.), -d
(imperative pl. and  nouns in -dad, -tud).  That's about it, for native
words.  Any other final C is most likely borrowed:  oddities like reloj
(prob. < Fr. orloge), bivac (prob. < Fr. bivouac).  Then there's álbum (or
is it {album}?), pronounced ['albun] in many dialects, though probably not
so written....

IIRC early attempts at transcribing Tagalog tried to follow the Spanish
rule, resulting in a proliferation of accents.  Eventually they got it
mostly right:
CVCCV(C) always has final stress; most CVCV(C) are penultimate-- these need
no mark.
But many CVCV(C) are ultimate-- so use the accent.  And since they didn't
indicate final /?/ (quite common), they had to devise special accents for
'CVCV? (grave on the final V) and CV(C)'CV? forms (circumflex on the final
V).  Tagalog dictionaries still follow that practice, but I think everyday
written usage does not.