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Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Weight Sensitive Stress

Most French people who are not linguistically minded won't even know what you're talking about. That's called stress deafness. They cannot even, they don't actually hear it because it's completely regular. And then you have this very specific way of speaking that I've just heard again a few days ago, French person trying to speak English. And it sounds quite like that. So, I think the bottom line on the discussion we just had, the metrical grids are useful. And I used them and they gave me what I wanted to do. But if there's something else you want to do that's a little bit outside the theory or falls onto it, into an exception to

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