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[lojban-beginners] Re: Stress.
On 9/4/06, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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}).
There seem to be two different opinions on this matter.
For me, {UAcintyn} and {uaCINtyn} are the exact same cmevla, they represent
two allowed pronunciations of the same word, much like {kla,ma} and
{kl,a,ma} represent two allowed pronunciations of the same word, in free
variation. The different spellings indicate a preference for one pronunciation,
but pronouncing the word either way is perfectly valid.
Others sometimes seem to think that stress in cmevla can make
a semantic difference. Sometimes people seem to think that even
syllabification in cmevla can make a semantic difference.
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?
As far as I'm concerned, in whichever way you prefer, since for me stress
doesn't make any difference in cmevla. For those who think stress does
make a semantic difference, some rule would be required, so that those
forms are not semantically ambiguous.
mu'o mi'e xorxes