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====Length and Stress==== | ====Length and Stress==== | ||
Vowel length is distinctive in Golahát, and is indicated by acute accents over the lengthened vowels. Vowel length is almost associated with syllable stress as | Vowel length is distinctive in Golahát, and is indicated by acute accents over the lengthened vowels. Additionally, the acute accent in ''ú'' and ''í'' also signify vowel tenseness. | ||
Vowel length is almost always associated with syllable stress. As a general rule, long vowels cannot occur in CVCC clusters, although some exceptions arise, as in ''mínþir'' (exhaustion). If two or more long vowels occur in a word, the final long vowel is stressed. | |||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||