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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
Primary stress most often occurs on the penultimate syllable of a root if its nucleus is not a lax vowel, or if the penultimate nucleus is lax, on the last tense vowel in the word. However, many words which have lost a final syllable since Old Manish now retain stress on the final syllable. This is most often the case when the word ends in a consonant, although some words which previously ended in ''-te'' also have this stress pattern. In these cases, stress may be marked in the romanized orthography, but the native system does not mark stress, so it must be memorized. | |||
Stress is used in a few marginal cases to distinguish between what would otherwise be homophones. However, in most cases there is a tense-lax vowel distinction that is only accompanied by stress, so it is disputed whether stress can actually distinguish homophones. | |||
Secondary stress typically occurs every other syllable, starting on either the first or second syllable such that the primary stress also falls on what would be a secondarily stressed syllable. | |||
Primary stress is normally found on a word stem or derivational affixes, not on inflectional affixes. The word ''kîn'' 'to be' is an exception. When conjugated, stress may fall on the prefix to avoid stressing the lax vowel, /ɪ/. | |||
Words which are written as compounds orthographically often retain multiple stressed syllables, being pronounced as separate words. This is most common in verbs, which often combine in writing. | |||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||