Re: [lojban] no stressed syllables in a name

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

On Thursday 11 August 2011 13:19:31 Luke Bergen wrote:
> The only thing I could find in the CLL was that names default to a
> penultimately stressed form and then anything other than that you specify
> stress by marking the syllable that SHOULD be stressed with capital letters
> (or a stress marker of some kind like cribê).
>
> But what if my name is pronounced with no stressed syllable at all?  How do
> I write "la bergen" with no stress?  Would saying that the whole thing is
> stressed have that effect?  i.e. "la BERGEN"?

I think that, if no syllable is stressed, you could mark that by putting a 
breve on the syllable that would be stressed by default. But I don't have the 
rules for default stress fully worked out. If a name consists entirely of 
consonants, should one of the consonants be stressed by default?

Pierre
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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