[lojban-beginners] Re: POM lines 1

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

On Thursday 18 January 2007 18:21, Cortesi wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > {noltruti'u} is one word. {noltru ti'u le cupra}... (is something
> > very other)
>
> I'm concerned about a basic thing here: was audio/visual isomorphism
> dropped along the line? (I don't want to reopen any old wars if so.)
>
> It seems to me that a person reading aloud would pronounce
> {noltruti'u} and {noltru ti'u} exactly the same, or too closely for a
> human or computer to distinguish them. But you (also Ted) say there's
> a semantic difference.

In {noltru ti'u}, "nol" is stressed; in {noltruti'u}, it isn't. A brivla is 
stressed on the penult unless that syllable has "y" in it, in which case it 
is stressed on the antepenult.

phma