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I thought the apostrophe was a consonant "like any other", a glotal stop?Hm... I'm a little confused. Maybe with some more example sentences I might understand it better. But then I'd suggest you not only to translate a sentence word by word, but to explain the semantics as well (and the stress), so how the words are built.
Bye, Stephan MorphemeAddict@hidden.email schrieb:
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