Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...> wrote:

>I'm sorry to be bull-headed about this.  It's just that the analysis in
>(2) seems to make perfect sense of Amman Iar metrics, while the
>analysis in (3), in addition to going against known universal tendencies
>of syllabification, makes Amman Iar metrics rather messy.  If your
>intuition is that "erinis" is really "er.in.is" instead of "e.ri.nis",
>that's fine.
I suspect David is used to the traditional way of dividing words
in English (we had a thread about this IIRC), where vowels, unless
they are "long" (generally diphthongs) are not supposed to be left
alone, and therefore you have "minute" /mInIt/ as "min-ute", while
"minute" /maj'n(j)ut/ is "mi-nute". This kind of thing was shockingly
strange to me at first -- now I think I've got it alright...


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