Siouan Long Vowls

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 BARudes at aol.com wrote:
> [In Catawba] On longer words, excluding some morphologically
> conditioned exceptions, accent falls on the penultimate syllable if it
> is long.  If it is short, accent falls on the antepenultimate
> syllable.  (This accent pattern is very much like the one
> reconstructed for Proto-Northern Iroquoian).

It sounds more or less like the system for Ancient Greek, too, though
maybe the conditioning factor there was the final syllable.  I have
forgotten.