First Syllable accent

From: "Ray Bergmann" <rayber@hidden.email>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:30:30 +1000
Subject: First Syllable accent
To: <txeqli@yahoogroups.com>

Surprise, surprise. Some support for first syllable accenting from discussion of the grammar of Esperanto!:

> "Some compound forms produce difficult consonant clusters...
> In these forms a pretonic accent is sometimes maintained on
the first syllable ... as well as the 'official' penultimate syllable"....e.g. "skribrulazho"
>
> Chris Gledhill "The Grammar of Esperanto", p. 32
>
> "... speakers may also be heard to move the accent leftwards in trisyllabic words"
>
> Samloke, p. 35
>

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