Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions
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tsere in closed ultimate syllables reduces to i | tsere in closed ultimate syllables reduces to i | ||
=== Intonation=== | === Intonation (in Secular American Ăn Yidiș) === | ||
In the varieties closest to Standard Ăn Yidiș, such as the secular varieties spoken in the US and Cualand, stressed syllables are pronounced ~1.3 times as long as unstressed ones. Questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is more exaggerated than normal. | In the varieties closest to Standard Ăn Yidiș, such as the secular varieties spoken in the US and Cualand, stressed syllables are pronounced ~1.3 times as long as unstressed ones. Questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is more exaggerated than normal. | ||
==== Within a prosodic unit ==== | ==== Within a prosodic unit ==== | ||