tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post5598069673502508606..comments2023-12-20T08:35:04.633+00:00Comments on Lingua Frankly: New languages, and new views on old ones....Titchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03003350618976942468noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post-3666990862645503422012-12-19T14:06:24.992+00:002012-12-19T14:06:24.992+00:00It's easy though: mutation only occurs if a st...It's easy though: mutation only occurs if a stressed vowel <i>looses</i> the stress after a <i>change</i> (because of e.g. conjugation or suffixation). <br />Like in "accende", E is stressed in "a leccia", the green oak. Now a couple of lecce form a "liccetu", a large leccia is a "liccione"... But in a formation like "messageru", deriving from "messagiu", where the E was unstressed in the first place, there is no need for svuculatura. On the other hand, in suttanacciu no unstressed E can occur: northern "accende" becomes "accenda", "mette" "metta", "core" "cori" and so on... if you wish to read more about these phonetic phenomena, I'd advice you to purchase "A pratica รจ a grammatica", Jean-Marie Comiti, re-edited by Albiana in 2011.GerdaLenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11523442394292039046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post-29729346001160117772012-11-09T10:09:52.225+00:002012-11-09T10:09:52.225+00:00Ecology -- exist -- extreme....
The first E in all...Ecology -- exist -- extreme....<br />The first E in all of those is unstressed, so a schwa.<br /><br />demi- semi-<br />I'm not sure if they count as secondary stress. In the words demigod and semicircle, they take the primary stress. There's not a lot of demi-/semi- words out there, and most of them are hyphenated and pronounced more like two words.Titchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003350618976942468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post-29815083430608031292012-11-06T21:00:01.083+00:002012-11-06T21:00:01.083+00:00Ecology? Exist? Extreme? And if you allow secondar...Ecology? Exist? Extreme? And if you allow secondary stress, what about the prefixes demi- and semi-?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post-62892974135198965812012-11-06T10:49:31.215+00:002012-11-06T10:49:31.215+00:00Arrggh... they'd "hear"...Arrggh... they'd "hear"...Titchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003350618976942468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30114385.post-83043089526271504542012-11-06T10:41:56.640+00:002012-11-06T10:41:56.640+00:00Hmmm.... and then after writing that I went away a...Hmmm.... and then after writing that I went away and studied a bit more and found several examples of words with an unstressed, unmutated E in Corsican. Complicated.<br /><br />Still can't think of any good examples in English except "made-up" words. EG metalicious, metaltastic. They retain the eh sound from "metal" in a position of secondary stress. If we tried to make that an /i/ sound, no-one would understand what we were saying. They'd here "meat" or "meet".<br /><br />Also complicated.<br /><br />All very complicated.Titchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03003350618976942468noreply@blogger.com