Re: Stress accent?

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

Jowan yscrifef:

> Padrig Bryn yscrifef:
> 
> > I thought the rhotic dialects retained the -r.  Your cantar doesn't seem
> > to have one -- or have I got it all backwards?  (It won't be the first
> > time!)
> 
> I said I spoke a rhotic dialect *of English* --- to wit, General
> American.  But that's neither here nor these, except as an explication
> of my linguistic esthetics.

D'oh!!

> 
> We have it on the authority of the home page that these "-r"s
> aren't pronounced in Modern Brithenig.  So, the question before
> the house is, is it:
> 
> 	CANTARE > [kan 'tar] > [k@n 'ta]
> 
> or
> 
> 	CANTARE > [kan 'tar] > ['kan t@r] > ['kan t@]
> 
> I find the second sequence phonetically more plausible.

I tend to agree with that.  If the accent stays where it was in Latin (cf.
Kernu), then I think the -r would be difficult to expell.  It would be
easier so to do without the accent.

> 
> -- 
> 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)
> 
Padraic.