More on Long Vow (e)ls

[Catherine Rudin]

> I have the impression
>that some of these stems have initial stress when the plural/proximate
>marker is missing, e.g., ga'ghe, daN'be, etc.  But dhathe'?

I certainly always hear(d) first syllable accent in these.  But then I nearly
always marked initial accent with the plural/proximate too -- lots of
ga'gha=i=the etc. in my texts.  As John knows I sometimes hear(d) accent on a
different syllable than where he marks it, perhaps because I expected stress
instead of pitch accent...

For what it's worth!  Catherine