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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>What tends to happen with the accent in modern
dialects?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example the Orizaba dialect seems to have just
reversed hierarchical rules</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of classical nahuatl. This reversed order explains
that tonalli is pronounced [´tonaLLi]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in Orizaba dialect and [to´naLLi] in classical
nahuatl (according to most grammars).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Informally:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A) Rule of epentesis: in final position the
sequences -VCC# are not allowed and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thus an epenthetic -i is added: chan + ABS =
chan + tl > chan-tl-i.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>B) Rule of accent: the stress fall in the
penultimate vowel.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Orizaba dialect present application in order B-A,
thus for example <´tonalli> is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>stressed in 3st vowell from the end (not the
second; </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>surface form: tonalli
[´tonaLLi]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>phonological form: tonaltl / tonal.tl
/):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>0) tonal.tl</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Assimilation (tl > l / l__#):
tonal.l</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Rule B: ´tonal.l</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) Rule A: ´tonal.l.i and thus is pronounced
[´tonaLLi]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But in classical nahuatl (as described in most
grammars):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>0) tonal.tl</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Assimilation (tl > l / l__#):
tonal.l</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Rule A: tonal.li</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) Rule B: to´nal.l.i and thus is pronounced
[to´naLLi]</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My uncertainity is if it is thrue that rule A
precedes rule B in classical nahuatl.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my opinion written documents are insufficient by
themselves to contradict</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this fact.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ma ximopapactzino</FONT></DIV>
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