Re: "Double stressed" words

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Most natlangs which have stress recognize "primary" and "secondary"
> stress for long words.  For example, the English word "philosophically"
> has primary stress on the "so" and secondary stress on the "phi":
> /,fI.l@'sA.f@.k@.li/.  I don't know of any natlangs that have identical
> stress in more than one syllable, but not all syllables, within a single
> "word", but I would not be surprised to learn of their existence. :)
I can't distinguish the stress in words with 'philosophically'. If I was
going to mark the stress in it, I would've guessed it as /"fIl@%sOfIkli/
for no reason other than stress ought to go on the first stressable
syllable :P . So I would say that certainly my ideolect doesn't
distinguish between them. I don't know how generalisable this is to my
dialect as a whole, though.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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