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on 2/27/02 1:31 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > > Since all Txeqli words are loan words, I see no reason not to make it > a principle that they should be forced to fit the Txeqli phonology, > including word-internal syllable stress patterns, whatever those are > designed to be. So, if the native stress pattern for a three-syllable > word is designed to be medium-light-heavy, then <banana> should be > /"ba na 'na/, not /"ba 'na na/, following English /"b@ 'n& n@/. Good thing you're here. This sort of thing almost _never_ comes up with artificial languages. I'd say this. Within morphs, penultimate accent. Within compounds...this gets more complicated. You can't change the stress pattern of a morph because it's in a compound. Banaa ba na' na Banana bawn ba na' na bawm' but Bananabawn ba na' na bawm" With the double quote meaning secondary stress. This is how English seems to work, and I think it's appropriate for Ceqli. Agree? BTW, Logan is terrible this way (or when I last looked). It actually allowed the same word to be stressed in different places. > -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/