Re: Morae (was: Re: Lurkers, poetic forms), and more

Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>penult is stressed unless it contains *e, in which case the ultima in
>stressed. Ml. BAsah 'wet',  beSAR 'big' etc.
>The ancestor of Buginese et al. apparently developed fixed penult stress.
>Result: geminate consonants following schwa (or its modern reflex).
This is extra-cool! I couldn't have figured that out for the life
of me... How common do you think this phenomenon is, when two
unrelated rules collide and a "solution" must be found? Does this
have a name?


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