Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

jmpearson@facstaff.wisc.edu writes:
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>(1)  VCV is almost always syllabified as V.CV, not VC.V
Hmm interesting. In Saalangal, I can see a word with a VCV pattern being
syllabified as VC.V, if the last V is an affix (the following examples are
just examples, they dont mean anything):

Ak - to be a root ;)

Ak'a - to be one who does the root

In the case of ak-a, the apostrophe (really a glottal stop) keeps the
words from being said like aka (a-ka), which could be another word. Then
again, this is not the usual pattern with unmodified roots. a root of aka
would most certainly be said as a-ka, not ak-a.

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