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Re: "Double stressed" words

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 13:47
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. -- Tristan <kesuari@...> Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. -- Snoopy

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