Siouan accent and long syllables

Rory Larson rlarson1 at UNL.EDU
Wed May 21 14:49:50 UTC 2014


I have a question about the Siouan accent rule that I should know, but don't.  Generally, Siouan accent likes to go on the second syllable.  Also, Siouan vowels are sometimes long.  Does a long vowel count as one syllable or two for purposes of the Siouan accent rule?  If we have a word with the vowel of the first syllable long,

                cvvcv

should Siouan accent it as

                cvvcV

or as

                cvVcv

?

Thanks,
Rory

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