[Lingtyp] lexical stress

Neda Haghighi Saber haqiqisaber.neda at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 05:33:35 UTC 2020


Thank you for the answer.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 05:43 Jess Tauber <tetrahedralpt at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Yahgan (genetic isolate, Tierra del Fuego), when a vowel is reduced to
> schwa, it generally doesn't affect nearby vowels in the word.
>
> Jess Tauber
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 8:19 PM Neda Haghighi Saber <
> haqiqisaber.neda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Neda
>>
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>> Neda Haghighi Saber
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>> Allameh Tabatab`i Univesity
>> Tehran
>> Iran
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