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===Intonation === | ===Intonation === | ||
Standard Windermere intonation is like Israeli Hebrew except it's more stress-timed. In certain accents of Windermere, especially in the Wieb region, stressed syllables with a final voiceless consonant are pronounced with a rising tone and other stressed syllables with a falling tone. In contemporary Wieb Windermere final voicing is no longer contrastive, having entirely been replaced with tone. | Standard Windermere intonation is like Israeli Hebrew except it's more stress-timed. In certain accents of Windermere, especially in the Wieb region, stressed syllables with a final voiceless consonant are pronounced with a rising tone and other stressed syllables with a falling tone. In contemporary Wieb Windermere final voicing is no longer contrastive, having entirely been replaced with tone -- Wieb Windermere can be analyzed as having four tones. | ||
===Stress=== | ===Stress=== |