[lojban-beginners] Re: Stress.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 04 September 2006 09:03, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> cmevla can be stressed anywhere or nowhere, it makes no difference.

It makes no difference to the lexing of the word, but can make a difference in 
the meaning (though the same cmevla, with the same stress, can refer to 
different things, e.g. {UAcintyn}). If no stress is written in a cmevla, it's 
pronounced with a default stress, but some sound sequences can occur in 
cmevla that can't occur in brivla:
Syllable contains "y" and another vowel: {uiliymsyn}
Two adjacent syllables contain "y": {stydmyfin}
Last syllable contains "y": {uacintyn}
How is the default stress determined in these cases?

> cmavo can also be stressed anywhere, but, if you stress a cmavo on the
> last syllable, you must make a pause, otherwise it might absorb part of
> a brivla to make a new brivla {MU.pliVALsi} is not the same as
> {MUpliVALsi}.

/lojbójbena lójbojbéna lojbojbéna/

phma