Re: Stress shift

Isaac A. Penzev scripsit:

> West Slavic languages within 5-7 hundred years acquired fixed phoneticly predicted
> dynamic stress: penultimate in Polish, initial in Czech and Slovakian.
I once had to listen to about an hour of two people talking in Polish
(of which I understand nothing), and I was bored out of my mind, an
unusual reaction for me.  I later decided that it was a combination of
the fixed stress and the syllable timing.

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