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Rob Speer wrote: > > 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. This should be reflected in the orthography: "to xi" (the female) vs. "pexi" (person-female--gack!), as well as in the stress. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _______________________________________________________ "When they wired us humans up, they really should have labeled the wires--don't you think?" -- Ed