[lojban] Re: "la" rule

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

John E Clifford wrote:
> I thought {lai} could take stress only if explicitly marked by {ba'e}.  That there would also be
> stress on {tl} I pass over as obvious.

ba'e is totally independent of any sort of vocal stress.

Why would there be stress on "tl"?  It is a monosyllable.  Lojban's 
default is penultimate stress, with no stress defined for monosyllabic 
words.

If the last syllable of a word is stressed and the following word is a 
*brivla*, a pause is mandatory.  But there is no rule for words followed 
by names other than a pause except after la, lai, la'i, and doi (page 69 
of CLL).

The present issue was in fact alluded to on that page in CLL.  It was 
noted that the situations where failure to pause before a name causes 
problems for a listener are rare.  It is because it rarely causes 
problems for listeners, that people get away with errors incorporating "la".

lojbab



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