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Isaac Penzev wrote:
Kay wrote:
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In other cases, accent is put as farest as the head of a word. e.g. /kA-ta-ba-taa/, /mAs-'a-la-tun/, /mAs-'a-la-tu-haa/, /Qa-Sa-ba-tu-hu-maa/So it must be _"wa:si3atun_, as I expected.
About this part of the summary, I'm a bit puzzled, to be honest with you. Thought /mas-'A-la-tun/ and /waa-sI-3a-tun/ were proper accent because the second syllable to last is short syllable, and /waa-sI-3a/ following the Exception (a) in Rule (1).
But it might be because of my inclination to Cairine dialect :0) Sorry if I confused you. John Cowan wrote: >Stress is not prescribed in modern standard >Arabic, and tends to follow the stress rules of the speaker's >colloquial.As John said, accent in real conversation varies a lot because almost every arabic speaker use his/her own dialect's accent rules. (That why we confuse!)
Kay