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Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based solely on position, as there are no phonemic long vowels in Rówok. | Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based solely on position, as there are no phonemic long vowels in Rówok. | ||
After the primary stress in tri- and more-syllabic words all successive vowels are reduced to schwa, '''but not in disyllabic words''' (cf. rówok /ro:wok/, but razánka /raza:nkə/) | After the primary stress in tri- and more-syllabic words all successive vowels are reduced to schwa, '''but not in disyllabic words''' (cf. '''rówok''' /ro:wok/, but '''razánka''' /raza:nkə/) | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||