Re: Chevraqis: what they call other languages

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > Chevraqis
> > > Gá Tivlák'is
> > > ['gA tSi'vla'keS]
> > > [ts] for [k] in common pronunciation
> >
> > I have the feeling Chevraqis and Watakassí speakers would have a hard
> > time understanding each other in first contact!  =^)
>
> :-)  Well, now that I know that <q> = /?/, and not /q/, as I'd thought
> before, I'd make it:
>
> Gá Tivláis
> ['gA tSi'vlaIS]
>
> Or Gá Tívlais
> [`gA 'tSivlaIs]
>
> Depending on where the stress is.
How do you indicate stress in IPA Kirschenbaum?  I was going to use
apostrophes then realized they probably stood for something.

Stress is pitch-based and boringly regular (exceptions possibly for
foreign loan-words).  It's higher pitch on every third syllable, counting
from the end of the word.  If it's a 2 syllable word, then the 1st
syllable gets higher pitch.  That's all.  :-p

YHL