Re: THEORY: YAEPT: stress placement (Was: Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional langu...
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2007, 0:01 |
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In a message dated 9/29/2007 10:13:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:
> Definitely meso'clitic. Analytic, anti-Semitic, electrolytic...
>
> Arguing the other way we have . . . uhm . . . im'politic . . . anything
> else?
>
On second thought, I'll go with meso'clitic. In isolation the main stress is
penultimate.
In direct comparison with similar words, though, as given in the original
post, I put the main stress on the first syllable in order to more clearly
distinguish the two.
Context, context, context.
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