From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:53:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 1404 invoked from network); 19 Sep 1997 12:47:16 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 19 Sep 1997 12:47:16 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.5CE29B6B@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:47:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:44:46 BST Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: Morphology X-To: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 691 Lines: 18 Message-ID: fi'i djef. > Another example I've heard is "ca dzukla ma" versus "cadzu klama". Even > I wondered at first how to disambiguate the speech stream "cabdei cerni" > from "cabdeicerni". But all of these examples can be > effectively disambiguated in the speech stream by listening to the primary > stress in the words. Yes, I know that primary stress will resolve these cases. > "lo re spajipci" is "lo re spaJIPci", whereas "lo > respa jipci" is "lo RESpa JIPci". However, the stress for cmavo is not restricted. Therefore it is possible to say "lo RE spa JI pci" and this can be either "lo RE spaJIPci" with a stressed cmavo or "lo REspa JIPci" as two gismu. ni'oco'omi'e dn. .UAnairo'e