Re: OT: German reputation
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 5:15 |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:36:49AM +0000, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
JMW>??? The stress is exactly on the same syllable: On the last. French _adieu_
JMW>/a'dj2/, Spanish _adiós_ /a'Djos/.
SM> /aDi'os/, surely. Unless I'm mistaken, the accent in Spanish indicates
SM> stress wherever it deviates from the unmarked penultimate position.
(I don't think it makes sense to use /D/ here - /d/ or [D], no?)
The accent is indeed on the last syllable, hence the graphical accent. The
question is whether there is one or two syllables before that. J. Mach
interprets it as two, and it may sound that way in rapid speech, but my
Spanish-speaking friends seem to consistently pronounce it with three.
[a.Di'os], not [a'Djos]. I suppose that makes sense, since it derives from
the phrase [a'Di.os], but that begs the question - why did the emphasis
shift to the final syllable in the combined form?
-Marcos
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