Re: CHAT: Importance of stress
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 26, 2000, 6:16 |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:34:17 -0800, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>No, this isn't about pressure from work, school or anything like that :),
>but it is about importance of stress in conlangs.
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>I've always wondered how many other conlangs besides mine lay importance
>on stress to indicate the correct meanings of words? I found it a nifty
>feature of Tagalog when I studied it because it seemed to allow you to
>stretch out the lexicon.
Olaetyan has a few minimal pairs based on stress. I'm fairly sure it does,
at least, but I can't think of any that don't also differ in vowel length.
Most of my langs have predictable, or at least non-phonemic, stress.
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