Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Matt Pearson wrote:

> Sounds a bit like Tokana.  Tokana has a regular stress rule ("stress the
> final syllable if the word ends in a consonant or a glide, otherwise
> stress the penult")
Valdyan has stress on the stem, or the first syllable of it, with the
exception that the interrogative prefix _cu-_ ("wh-") wants stress
and usually gets it, and the diphthong _ai_ is always stressed, even
when it is not (as it often is) a contraction of -aye-.

There's one notable exception in the pronouns:

ini [i'ni]     - first person dual, "both of us" (regular)
inini [i'nini] - first person dual inclusive, "you and I" (regular)
but the latter is shortened to the irregular ['ini] more often than
not.

   Irina

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