Re: Justifying a stress pattern

In a message dated 12/29/2007 10:50:32 AM Central Standard Time,
andjo@FREE.FR writes:


> 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
>

I had trouble understanding this, too.
If the final syllable ends in a short vowel followed by a single consonant,
how is it a long syllable?

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