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on 2/28/02 1:34 AM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: Yikes! I do need to give this a lot more thought. My knee-jerk pronunciations below: > > What about the following? > > gasulgater ga sul' ga ter" > > daryakinar dar" ya ki' nor > > pampamzo pam pam' zo by the conscious penultimate stress rule > > popyatertail po' pya ter" tail > > silamkreipe si' lam krei" pe > > And what how do you define a syllable? Is <koijai> four syllables, as > it would be in Japanese? The list you got these from was formed under the ai, ei, oi, au, eu makes a diphthong rule. Therefore koijai is 2 syllables. > > Would you break up <karalan>, <karaqan>, and <karaman> the same way? > If so, how? If not, why not? Yes, ka-RA-lan, etc. > > Frankly, it takes a lot of staring for me to figure out which groups > of syllables belong together in a morpheme, even though I understand > the rule. I find it odd that stress should involve knowing what is and > what is not a morpheme. Well, here's my thinking on that. Did I already say this? Oh, well. GER-man combines with pe to make GER-man-pe. You have to keep the internal stress of the morph lest you twist it out of shape, as in ger-MAN-pe. Now, I have a problem with ga and pi compounds. I realize that I want to say ga-TER instead of GA-ter. I think this is because the Ter is the most important part of the compound and I want to stress it. A way around this would be to make ga and pi suffixes. Terga. What do you think? I did the same thing some time ago when I moved zo and xi from prefixes to suffixes, for the same reason. > -- >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/