Meaning change with emphasis shift

Jim Holton jim at ADISOFT-INC.COM
Wed Nov 6 07:02:40 UTC 2002


A stretch may be that from the CJ of Gibbs, lo'lo (stress frist
syllable) and lolo' (second syllable) may come from two different roots.
 I am thinking this as in the GR CJ, the one that Gibbs has as stressed
on the 2nd syllable actually has a glottal stop in between the two
syllables, where I don't believe the first one does.  Klahauyem, Jim
.

David D. Robertson wrote:

>Hi,
>
>For the mental exercise of it, I'm trying to think of any pair of words
>there may be in Chinuk Wawa, differentiated by stress, that *doesn't come
>from* one & the same root.  Nope, can't seem to think of any.  There may be
>some such, but Colin's question brings up a good point--that stress was
>used, most nota .......
>



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