Re: [lojban] Re: pronunciation with cmavo and brivla

[Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>]

Jorge Llambías wrote:
>Maybe something like {RE. SPAti} would have been a better example.
>It is not clear whether {RESPAti} should break as {re spati}
>or as {respa ti}, as in both cases the brivla has a stressed 
>penultimate syllable.

It *is* clear, because /RESPA/ is not a valid pronunciation of {respa}.
All non-penultimate syllables in a brivla must be unstressed.

The ambiguity occurs with, for example, /LOkreBUKpu/, which could be
divided into words as either {lo krebukpu} or {lokre bukpu}.

-zefram