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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, July 16, 2001, 8:31
En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> > One more rule: words ending in -mente are stressed as if the -mente > were > a separate word (which historically it was). >
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... Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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