Thanks
that does help. But does this mean that a pa.li word of more than two or three syllables might have multiple accents.
After speculating about the accents on the main stem I went and looked at a few languages that use prefixes heavily and found that these languages do not stress the main stem as a rule.
Do you know any of the rules concerning were the placement of accents on sanskrit words goes?

thanks
Johnny

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From: P G Dave <pgd2507@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:50:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Pali] accent of pali














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.



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> 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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