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On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:43:18AM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > Do you mean the first syllable of morphs only? > > No, morphs and compounds. I've been going thru the vocabulary so far, and I > can't find a problem with that rule, whereas penultimate stress does indeed > make trouble. In the Ceqli vocabulary, there's no way to tell the difference between a word that could form a compound with another similar word (pe) and a grammatical word that would never form compounds (to). So you'd have to know what the words mean, or at least what grammatical class they're in, to pronounce the stress correctly. As an example: I believe "to xi" and "pe xi" would have different stress. -- Rob Speer