Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

>jmpearson@facstaff.wisc.edu writes:
>>
>>(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.
Ah, but "ak'a" isn't really a violation of the constraint in (1), since
there's a glottal stop between the consonant and vowel.  So "ak'a"
is a case of VCCV getting syllabified as VC.CV.  No problemo!

Matt.