Re: YAEPT French loans

On 2008-08-13 J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> > I guess I just expect speakers of a language with 'free'
> > >stress to be able to reproduce the stress-pattern of
> > >a language with bound stress, but apparently English
> > >English still defaults to word-initial stress just
> > >like Old English did, despite a millennium of massive
> > >Romance and Latin borrowings.  A reassuring thought
> > >in a way.
>
> What's it like with Swedish then? In German, it's not the same
> everywhere.
There is a strong tendency to give 'exotic' words
a French-like final stress, except that vowel-final
polysyllables get penultimate stress.  Interestingly
neither pattern is native-like.  English and German
of course are not 'exotic', but huphenated words
like _make-up_ tend to get erroneous final stress.


/BP 8^)>
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