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I often use sca2 to apply sound changes to my languages, however I run into problems when the sound changes depend on stressed/unstressed syllables, or other factors relating to stress. Is there a work around to dealing with stress in sca2, or do I need to mark every stressed syllable? (My conlangs usually have regular stress and it is therefore unmarked).
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Sca2 and stress-based rules?
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Re: Sca2 and stress-based rules?
Unfortunately there is no way of not marking it, unless you're in for creating very specific environments (e.g. for a CV(C) language with penultimate stress then a stressed-vowel change would take place in _(C)CV(C)).
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Re: Sca2 and stress-based rules?
If stress is regular and syllabification is also regular, you could use rules to introduce both and delete them afterwards. Here is an example:Davush wrote:Hello,
I often use sca2 to apply sound changes to my languages, however I run into problems when the sound changes depend on stressed/unstressed syllables, or other factors relating to stress. Is there a work around to dealing with stress in sca2, or do I need to mark every stressed syllable? (My conlangs usually have regular stress and it is therefore unmarked).
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Imagine a CV language where stress is always on the penultimate syllable. In the daughter language, all stressed vowels become diphthongs.
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Re: Sca2 and stress-based rules?
The fact that it's such a bother to do stress-based rules means that, quite unrealistically, stress basically never plays a part in sound change in any of my conlangs ...
Creyeditor's idea of marking stress via rule is a good one. If there are exceptions to the regular pattern you'd probably want to have them marked in your lexicon anyway, so they needn't mess things up.
Creyeditor's idea of marking stress via rule is a good one. If there are exceptions to the regular pattern you'd probably want to have them marked in your lexicon anyway, so they needn't mess things up.
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