Re: [lojban] vowel and stress

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

On Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:33:53 Remo Dentato wrote:
> {iY}. Oh! I thought that the schwa should never be stressed.

A schwa by itself is not, by default, stressed unless all vowels in the word 
are schwas. A schwa in a diphthong can have the default stress.

In Albanian, the schwa is a normal vowel and can be stressed. We may want to 
borrow names from Albanian.

> It should be pronounced {bangrkorča} right? I just realized I don't
> know any rule to split up consonant clusters!
> I would go with {bangr,ko,re,a} but I'm not sure.

{ban,gr,ko,ré,a}. The "r" is a syllabic consonant, which is ignored when 
placing stress.

> Yes, I see that the explicit mark of accent is only needed for cmevla.

True, though a cmavo can be accented on a non-default syllable and you may 
want to mark it in poetry.

> Talking about this, I would really like to see the use of capitalized
> syllable go away as a mean to mark the stress. We do have accents for
> this (any accent would work). I understand that back in time, US
> keyboards didn't have accented characters but now there should be no
> reason.
> I always found awkward to say "lojban alphabet only uses roman lower
> case letters" just to have to say few moments later that also the
> capital letters are used. If they are :(

I agree.

Pierre
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