
Conlangery #123: Stress Systems
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The Word Accent System in the Languages of Asia
Stress is on the final vowel if it's a. If both vowels are none, a, or if the first syllable contains a schwa and is closed, stress is penult. Some of the articles from particular languages are pretty rich and give you a range of possibilities. I in my life have never encountered a natural language that I've heard about that stresses the second syllable in the word. But, ossession does. It's good ruddy. This episode is all about word level stress. So we're not going to talk about clause level or sentence level stress because that's. That's the positive episode that we've never done in the five years that people
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