[lojban-beginners] Re: Preliminary chapter 1 for Lojban learners

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 3/18/2009 08:46:31 Eastern Daylight Time, jjllambias@gmail.com writes:


> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:33 PM,  <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not marking the stress imposes a default penultimate stress.  There is no
> > way to indicate "no stress preference".
>
> A cmevla can be pronounced with any stress pattern you like: you can
> even stress more than one syllable in a cmevla or none at all.
> Whatever the stress pattern you use, the cmevla is the same cmevla.
> The same happens with cmavo (except that with cmavo you have to be
> more careful, because if you stress the last syllable you may also
> need a pause after it). It is only for brivla that stress is
> important, for brivla the stress is part of what defines the word.


But in Red Book section 4.8 (p. 65) it says "Names may have almost any form, but always end in a consonant, and are followed by a pause.  They are penultimately stressed, unless unusual stress is marked with capitalization."

So the unmarked (i.e, uncapitalized) cmevla does have a default penultimate stress.  
This probably doesn't matter to a fluent speaker, but to a learner it does (or could).

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