[lojban-beginners] Re: POM: the Princess puts her foot down

["Turniansky, Michael" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

  Phonemic (remembering that ai,oi,ei, and au are diphthongs, therefore
single syllables).  All non-cmavo, non-(cmene-where-otherwise-indicated)
words, are stressed on the penultimate syllable, unless those syllables
have a y in them, in which they are not counted.  fu'Ivla, kalcyTA'u,
PAFygau.   Okay?
               --Mike T.


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[mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Alex Martini
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:15 AM
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: POM: the Princess puts her foot down

I think part of the issue is that Lojban actually has 2 kinds of  
syllables, or two different ways to break a word into syllables. As  
far as making words is concerned, it seems that y'y doesn't "count"  
as a consonant or a vowel. This lets us have a lot more cmavo than we  
would otherwise have. But when pronouncing Lojban, y'y has to break a  
syllable. My confusion is around stress -- do you assign stress based  
on the morphological syllables or based on the phonemic syllables?

Or am I still thinking about y'y from the wrong angle?

mu'o mi'e .aleks.