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Re: [saweli] quote of the day

In a message dated 6/3/2007 7:01:00 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


the stress is on the penultimate sillable, right?


That works.
I haven't settled on a specific stress yet.  There are at least four different patterns that I use.
1) no apostrophes, no suffixes, no secondary endings:  first syllable.
(I just came up with the new term "secondary endings".  These are the endings that replace Latejami's prefixes - plural, generic, case registers, name marker, etc.)  
2) apostrophe in classifier, no suffixes, no sec. endings: second syllable, i.e., the syllable after the apostrophe.
3) no apostrophe, there are suffixes: syllable before suffixes (marked by syllable-closing "n").
4) there are secondary endings: penultimate syllable.

In many cases the rules have the same result, namely penultimate, and penultimate is always (at least for now) a good general rule.

stevo