Re: [lojban] ko'a rodbo'e bai ko'e

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

On Wednesday 09 May 2012 20:44:35 Jacob Errington wrote:
> Hm, I thought that apostrophe-syllables, like y-syllables, didn't count:
>
> [rodbO'e] and [rodbo'E] are the same, iirc. [rOdbo'e] is the correct
> pronunciation. (this rule doesn't seem very adhered to though, at least not
> by vensa and I when saying your name, selpa'i)

Syllables with apostrophes do count. Syllables whose nucleus is just "y" do 
not count, unless they're the last syllable (which never occurs in brivla). 
Consonantal syllables don't count at all. The correct stress is "rodbO'e".

A diphthong counts as only one syllable, even if pronounced as two, thus the 
stress of "spatrxapio" is "spatrxApio" even if you pronounce 
it "spat,r,xa,pi,o". (The same applies in Spanish, by the way. "apio" is 
stressed on "a". And some past tenses of verbs ending in "-ió" are pronounced 
with "-i,ó".)

Pierre

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li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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