Re: THEORY: YAEPT: stress placement (Was: Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional langu...
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2007, 0:06 |
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In a message dated 9/29/2007 11:11:39 AM Central Daylight Time,
un.doing@GMAIL.COM writes:
> even hybrid compounds like "automobile", whose
> ultimate stress has always eluded me as to why -- IIRC the Latin was
> 'mo:bilis.
>
Ultimate stress? As in final syllable? No way!
It's 'automo,bile.
Although I've heard it the other way, too.
stevo </HTML>
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