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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Another relatively unique feature of the language is that it has no phonemic stress, intonation, or even syllable-boundaries, thus forcing both the speaker & listener either to innovate all the likely possibilities of the prosody of a given sentence or analyze it purely as a sequence of sounds. However, it is important to note that, at least for casual speech, primary stress and/or hiğ-tone is often placed on the initial syllable of a word, and secondary stress and/or mid-tone is often [[:w:trochee|trochaic]] (placed in repeating patterns of stressed-unstressed) from the beginning of the word. An exception to the rule of casual stress would be a syllable containing a lengthened or ава ( | Another relatively unique feature of the language is that it has no phonemic stress, intonation, or even syllable-boundaries, thus forcing both the speaker & listener either to innovate all the likely possibilities of the prosody of a given sentence or analyze it purely as a sequence of sounds. However, it is important to note that, at least for casual speech, primary stress and/or hiğ-tone is often placed on the initial syllable of a word, and secondary stress and/or mid-tone is often [[:w:trochee|trochaic]] (placed in repeating patterns of stressed-unstressed) from the beginning of the word. An exception to the rule of casual stress would be a syllable containing a lengthened or ава (rouğ) vowel, which is stressed by default. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Despite Elliott often having remarked that the language had almost no phonotactic limits, Danterian does in fact have some very clear phonotactics which are as follows. | |||
'''Syllable Structure:''' (W/N)(C)<sup>6</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>V/-P<sup>2</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>(C)<sup>4</sup>(W/N)<br> | '''Syllable Structure:''' (W/N)(C)<sup>6</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>V/-P<sup>2</sup>(W)<sup>2</sup>(C)<sup>4</sup>(W/N)<br> | ||
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#Unstressed /ʲi/, /ʲe/, /ʲø/, /ʲɒ/, /ʲo/, /ʲɯ/ cannot preceed liquids and will become lengthened /ː/ and/or undergo ава-ућу mutation. | #Unstressed /ʲi/, /ʲe/, /ʲø/, /ʲɒ/, /ʲo/, /ʲɯ/ cannot preceed liquids and will become lengthened /ː/ and/or undergo ава-ућу mutation. | ||
#Adjacent consonants with multiple similar features may merge (their Places of Articulation). | #Adjacent consonants with multiple similar features may merge (their Places of Articulation). | ||
#Lenis Stops are not released syllable-finally or | #Lenis Stops are not released syllable-finally or preceding other Stops. | ||
#Complex consonant clusters with non-plosives >C<sup>6</sup> become syllabic. | #Complex consonant clusters with non-plosives >C<sup>6</sup> become syllabic. | ||
#/j/, /w/, /ʕ/, /r/, /rʲ/, /r̃/, /l/, /ʎ/, /l̃/, /ʎ̃/, /ʡ/ become devoiced after Aspirated Stops and assimilate with the plosive. | #/j/, /w/, /ʕ/, /r/, /rʲ/, /r̃/, /l/, /ʎ/, /l̃/, /ʎ̃/, /ʡ/ become devoiced after Aspirated Stops and assimilate with the plosive. | ||