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*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'', the preceding syllable is stressed in two-syllable words and the following in words with more than three syllables. | ||
**Syllable with nuclear ''o'' is only stressed when it comes second and the preceding syllables has also ''o'' as nucleus. Then it appears as /ɘ/. | **Syllable with nuclear ''o'' is only stressed when it comes second and the preceding syllables has also ''o'' as nucleus. Then it appears as /ɘ/. | ||
*A syllable with a long vowel, the closing diphthong or a syllabic consonant is always stressed and steals the stress from neighboring | *A non-final syllable with a long vowel, the 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 body): ''gat'' (house) → ''gatu'' /ˈgɑˑ.tu/ (at the house) | Inflected and affixed word forms have the same stress as the base word (even monosyllabic body): ''gat'' (house) → ''gatu'' /ˈgɑˑ.tu/ (at 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 ¿. | ||
==Morphophonology== | ==Morphophonology== | ||