Re: CHAT: Importance of stress
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 21:11 |
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* Barry Garcia (Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu) [000125 05:36]:
> 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.
AFMCL, stress plays no role lexically. I like it that way, maybe because
stress is important in all the languages I know?
Each syllable gets the same amount of stress, it's the time between
syllables that is important. I've been working on syllable-patterns for
poetic purposes but I guess I'm not cut out for regular rhyme... My
attempts at rhyming poems in whatever language are rather laughable
compared to the free verse ones. Oh well.
t.