Chlouvānem: Difference between revisions

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 ===Prosody===
 ====Stress====
+Stress in Chlouvānem is not phonemic and usually predictable, determined by long vowels and verbal roots:
+* The last long vowel in a word is stressed, unless it is word-final '''ė''';
+* Verbal roots always carry either the main stress or secondary stress (depending on the previous rule);
+* In words with no long vowels, the third-to-last syllable is stressed, unless the fourth-to-last is the stressed part of a verbal root;
+* Compound words have secondary stress on each vowel that would have primary stress if it were an isolated word, except if immediately preceding another (primarily or secondarily) stressed vowel; in that case, the stress moves one syllable backwards unless it would lead to another such situation of consecutive stress (e.g. */ˌSSˌSˈSS/ → /ˌSSSˈSS/ and not **/ˌSˌSSˈSS/).
 ====Intonation====