<div dir="ltr">In Yahgan (genetic isolate, Tierra del Fuego), when a vowel is reduced to schwa, it generally doesn't affect nearby vowels in the word. <div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:19 PM Neda Haghighi Saber <<a href="mailto:haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com">haqiqisaber.neda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear friends,</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font><div><font face="georgia, serif">When the vowel of a stressed syllable in a multy-syllabic word is reduced and changes into a schaw, what happens to its lexical stress? In other words, I`d like to know in which syllable it appears then. Is it rule-based and predictable or not?</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Neda</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">----</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Neda Haghighi Saber</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Linguistics Student </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Allameh Tabatab`i Univesity</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Tehran</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1">Iran</font></div></div>
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