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

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

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:27, Turniansky, Michael wrote:
>   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?

I think the rule is "unless the only vowel in them is y"; a cmevla can 
have "uy" or "iy" in it, and can have two consecutive syllables with "y" in 
them or the first or last syllable with "y", none of which can occur in 
brivla.

Then there are syllabic consonants, which are important for determining 
whether a word is pronounceable, but have no effect on placing the 
stress. "bakrto" (an ungulate of uncertain identity mentioned in Leviticus 
11) could be "BA,kr,to" or "BAK,rt,o", and "cinkytoltri" is stressed on "to" 
no matter how many syllables you make of "ltr".

phma