Re: "Decorative diacritics" (Was: Re: "Kodak" )

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:32:29 -0800, Patrick Chew <patchew@...>
wrote:

> Czech stress is always on the initial syllable of a non-clitic.
> The acute accent (above a, e, i, and y) and the ring (above u only)
> are length markers - that is, they mark "extended duration" of the
> vowel, which is not an indicator of stress (even though in English,
> stress is an amalgamation of amplitude, duration, etc.).

> cheers,
> -Patrick

Thanks, kindly!

> UC Berkeley: Dept. of Linguistics, PhD student

Aha!

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