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Primary stress in a word is most often on the second syllable, and when there are four or five syllables, secondary stress is placed onto the final syllable. When there are more syllables, stress is placed on even-numbered syllables. | Primary stress in a word is most often on the second syllable, and when there are four or five syllables, secondary stress is placed onto the final syllable. When there are more syllables, stress is placed on even-numbered syllables. | ||
*If the to-be-stressed syllable contains the schwa ''o'', the preceding syllable is stressed in two-syllable words and the following in words with more than three syllables. | *If the to-be-stressed syllable contains the schwa ''o'' /ə/, the preceding syllable is stressed in two-syllable words and the following in words with more than three syllables. | ||
** | **In uninflected words, syllable with nuclear ''o'' is only stressed when it comes second and the preceding syllable has also ''o'' as nucleus. Then the stressed nucleus appears as /ɘ/. | ||
*A non-final syllable with a long vowel, | *A non-final syllable with a long vowel, a closing diphthong or a syllabic consonant is always stressed and steals the stress from its neighboring syllable. This also moves the secondary stress from final to penultimate syllable, if primary stress falls on first syllable. | ||
Inflected and affixed word forms have the same stress as the base word (even monosyllabic | Inflected and affixed word forms have almost always the same stress as the base word (even monosyllabic with schwa): ''doth'' (man) → ''dothku'' /ˈdəθ.ku/ (at the house). | ||
*Vocative and ergative cases as well as inflections with long vowels make an exception: ''dothee'' /dəˈθe:/ (by the man), ''dothé'' /dəˈθɛ/ (O man), ''gatóo'' /gɑˈtɔ:/ (to the house) | |||
Interrogatives are formed by changing the primary stress onto the first syllable and a rising pitch. This is indicated with ¿ | Interrogatives are formed by changing the primary stress onto the first syllable and a rising pitch. This is indicated with ¿: ''¿Eikepoi?'' (Did you wash it?) | ||
==Morphophonology== | ==Morphophonology== | ||