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Stress

Stress bothers me. Tceqli has plenty of two and three syllable words, and I've tried to think of the best way to handle stress rules. Currently, the rule is stress the first syllable. That may be the optimum way to do it. (And I shouldn't really be saying 'words', but 'morphemes'). I've also considered penultimate stress, which works okay, and having stress fall on the last syllable that doesn't end in a vowel. I wonder if my propensities are confusing me. A word like 'kanor' seems like it should be stressed on the last syllable, no matter the rule. And a word like 'himel', seems to need stress on the first syllable. Am I reacting to some intrinsic linguistic tendency here, or am I just exporting my own prejudices. If the former, perhaps Tceqli should have slightly more complicated stress rules. 


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