I am Indian and speak a few north-Indian languages including Hindi.
yes, anujaanaati wud be prounced as accented by you. But the logic seems
erroneous...even without the prefix, the word jaanaati, by itself, wud be
pronuounced in exactly the same way as when it is a part of anujaanaati.

In order to derive a rule on accenting for pronunciation, one needs
to recall that vowels are short (hrasva in sanskrit) and long (diirgha in
sanskrit), as follows:

*hrasva*
a
i
u

*diirgha*
aa
ii
uu
e
ai
o
au

Also, the resultant sound upon attaching these vowels to consonants, follows
the short/long character of the attached vowel. Thus breaking up anujaanaati
into its components you get:

a -- short
nu -- short
jaa -- long
naa -- long
ti -- short

I spoke a few words and the following rule seems to emerge :

All longs are naturally more stressed than shorts and when a long follows a
short, it appears slightly more accented.

Hope this helps.

I wanted to record a few words and upload the file for you but my mic failed
me.

with metta.
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On 2/23/08, johnny pruitt <mahasacham@...> wrote:

> I had a thoery about the pronunciation of Pali. Could it be possible
> that pali verbs that have prefixes could be accented on the main root. For
> example, anujaanaati could be accented on the word jaanaati; thus
> anu-JAA-naati. Does this occur in Indic languages? Just a random thought.
>
> Johnny Pruitt
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