THEORY: YAEPT: stress placement (Was: Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post})

2007/9/24, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
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> Then there are also mesoclitics, which occur between morphemes within
> a word in Portuguese. I don't see why some so-called endoclitics
> (i.e. the ones between morphemes) shouldn't be called mesoclitics.
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Poll: In words like "mesoclitic" and "endoclitic", and other
non-native English, newly loaned or otherwise jargon terms (especially
latinate ones), where do you put the stress?

1. me'soclitic (latinate stress)
2. ,meso'clitic (analytic stress)
3. any other

I've encountered such a dilemma a few times in reading more
specialised material before, and find that my ad hoc pronunciation
depends on my mood, and (embarrassingly) on whether I will be talking
about the topic in question afterwards to people I don't think will be
familiar with the term (if they will, the former; if not, the latter,
for ease of parsing).

Eugene

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