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

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Thursday, July 12, 2001, 12:00
>> >> 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.
> >One more rule: words ending in -mente are stressed as if the -mente were >a separate word (which historically it was). >
Ahh, right. I read about that in an aged layman's linguistics book called "The Loom of Language"... Imperative