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Re: Retranslation

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 21:18
Siyo!
Basically, this is how stress works:
1) For any "true" two-syllable root, the stress falls
on the first syllable.

2) Two-syllable pronoun prefixes for verbs (the
negative, and passive) have no stress in either.  This
does not work for the reflexive as per rule 4.

3) The one-syllable articles and demonstratives have
no stress, whether acting as prefixes or infixes.

There are two exceptions to these rules:
4) An "h" puts a stress on the preceding syllable.
5) A penultimate "e" receives a stress.
These rules came about as I have tried to speak the
words.

I hope it's a bit less of a mess for you.  The only
real trouble is picking up on the infixes properly,
but they're not common, and I think that the fluent
reader would automatically count the vowels in a noun
when there is not an article or demonstrative at the
beginning.

Dana!
Clint


--- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> Clint Jackson Baker wrote: > >I didn't clarify that this is the corrected > version. > >> > Iwolaki ladlehamalosanokayada lahowinoleha > >> > tsidlahahekwihadani. Hi leso si > ihetsika....... etc. > > If you've already posted information on > accentuation, my apologies...but it > would be interesting to know where the stresses fall > in some of these long > long forms. > Hope this doesn't cause even more confusion ;-)))))
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