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Conlangery #33: Suprasegmentals

Conlangery Podcast

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The Differences Between English and Other Languages

Stress is sort of a weird thing because it affects a syllable right but also there's sort of a stress pattern over an entire word in most languages. And what counts as stress can be different from language to language. English in a lot of Western European languages, the ones that have stress at all or at the word level, have a combination of intensity that is volume and pitch. Bianca was flabbergasted by the idea.

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