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Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based almost solely on position, as there are very few phonemic long vowels in Rówok, and the ones that do exist are either in [[#Adverbial stem|adverbs]] or the nominal plural marker '''-ín-'''. | Every word has a primary stress accent, which tends toward the penult or antepenult, and the language is stabilizing to a system like the Latin one, just that the length of the syllable determining the penult or antepenult is based almost solely on position, as there are very few phonemic long vowels in Rówok, and the ones that do exist are either in [[#Adverbial stem|adverbs]] or the nominal plural marker '''-ín-'''. | ||
After the primary stress in tri- and more-syllabic words all successive vowels are reduced to schwa, '''but not in disyllabic words''' (cf. '''rówok''' /ro:wok/, but '''razánka''' /raza:nkə/). | After the primary stress in tri- and more-syllabic words all successive vowels are reduced to schwa, '''but not in disyllabic words''' (cf. '''''rówok''''' /ro:wok/, but '''''razánka''''' /raza:nkə/). | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||