Re: Justifying a stress pattern

How can a long syllable end in a short vowel, with or without a following
consonant...?
That's what's confusing me. (:

Eugene

2007/12/30, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
>
> Quoting Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>:
>
> > I didn't understand this particular sentence of yours:
> > "The oddity, of course, is that a long final syllable doesn't attract
> the
> > stress
> > if it ends in a short vowel followed by a single consonant."
> >
> > ??? Perhaps you could explain it. :-p
>
> It would be easier to explain if you gave me some hint what confuses you.
> The
> sentence is perfectly clear as near as I can tell.
>
> Andreas
>

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