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Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

From:Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
Date:Thursday, January 27, 2000, 16:46
>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.