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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Vowels in Brittainese varies greatly between dialects. Below is listed one rendering of the Standard Brittainese | Vowels in Brittainese varies greatly between dialects. Below is listed one rendering of the vowels for the Standard Brittainese, Brittish Brittainese and American dialects, although the view in the matter may differ among specialists. | ||
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=== | ====Vowel Length==== | ||
Vowel length is phonemic in Standard Brittainese, but is only contrastive on the primarily stressed syllable. It arose from the allophonic vowel length of Proto-West-Romance, that became phonemic due to the loss of many vowels in the Old Brittainse stage of the language. Vowels will always be long in open syllables, but may be either long or short in closed syllables. | |||
=== | Vowel length used to be phonemic in all Brittainese dialects, although this has been lost in favor of a lax/tense distinction in American Brittainese. It was instead replaced by an allophonic lengthening of stressed vowels in open syllables and final syllables with a one-consonant coda. | ||
=== | ====Unstressed Syllables==== | ||
== | Unstressed Brittainese vowels are pronounced differently from stressed vowels in every dialect, although their precise realisation may differ. In Standard and Brittish Brittainese unstressed vowels must always be short, as only primarily stressed vowels may be long. In the American dialect however, as it lacks a contrastive vowel length, only stressed vowels may be tense, while unstressed vowels are always lax. All dialects however contrast three unstressed vowels /ə i u/. Below are listed their exact pronunciations in Standard, Brittish and American Brittainese. | ||
* '''Standard Brittainese:''' [ə i u]. /a/ is pronounced [ɐ] in secondarily stressed syllables. | |||
* '''Brittish Brittainese:''' [ə ɨ ʉ]. /ʉ/ is unrounded to [ɨ] before coda /r/ or /n/. /a/ is pronounced [ɐ] in secondarily stressed syllables. | |||
* '''American Brittainese:''' [ə ɪ ʊ]. | |||
===Stress=== | |||
Most Brittainese words can receive both primary and secondary stress. Only a few words receive no stress, such as articles, clitics, prepositions e.t.c. The primary stress is phonemic, but is most often given to the last full syllable. In that case, a secondary stress is given to the first vowel. Some words however have their stress on another vowel than the last full. In addition to the secondary stress on the first syllable, they also receive a secondary stress on the last vowel. | |||
Compound words created from two or more words keep their original secondary stress, but the primary stress of all words but the last are converted to secondary stress, leaving only one vowel with primary stress. | |||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||