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Stress accent?

To: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@MACLINE.CO.UK>,Padraic Brown <samorigos@juno.com>,Andrew Smith <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>,Peter Skye <skye@poconos.com>, John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.edu>
Subject: Stress accent?
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 11:14:15 -0500
Organization: Lojban Peripheral

I've been stressing the penult, on the assumption that Brithenig,
like most Romance languages, shuns proparoxytones.  Is that always
right, though?  When does the ultima get the stress?  (Italian
clues us in with the grave here.)  The Web pages are distressingly
silent.

--  
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)

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