Subject: Re: [lojban] fu'ivla tarmi

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:19:05 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Richard Curnow wrote:

> What
> worries me is lujvo of the form CVVCCV followed by a gismu. For (a
> contrived) example, the words "ci'ebra zbasu" would be stressed thus if
> spoken
> 
> ci'Ebra zbAsu
> ^ ^
> +------+---- stress
> 
> but consider how "ci'e brazbasu" could be spoken (given that cmavo can
> be arbitrarily stressed)

Almost. A cmavo with final stress *must* be followed by pause,
for just this reason.

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John Cowan [email-masked]
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