Re: [tied] Albanian mend-

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:02:53 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Since "-ciuna" is not as sufix is very nice the noun "minc^unã"= lie
>> Nice to think about I mean:)
>> This one is from Latin "mentionis"= mention cf DEX
>>
>> ti > c^i? or "tio" > "c^i"?
>
> Latin -tyV- (and -kyV-) yields /c/ (<t,>) except when the V is a
> stressed /ó/ or /ú/, in which case it yields /c^/ (<ci>)
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Thank you Miguel. How I can find out if there was a stressed vowel or
not? For instance in "mentio:nis", there is just the long /o/ there.
Which are the criteria for knowing if this "o" was stressed or not?
Should be every long vowel stressed one?

Alex