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accent on 'drink!' (and 'drinker'), but with other stems they show at best
sporadic final accentuation. Such cases as A-grm α-s-skni 'showing' are
irrelevant since Stem-Final i/A-Deletion (29) has not applied, so there is no
need to resyllabify. Another example is causative -s-vjlu- (dialectally -s-vgli>)
'send' (< 'cause to go'), where the Imprt is s-sjal (T-ka), s-sgsl (R), s-seglu
(A-grm), and s-aglu (K-d), and where the VblN is a-s-sjsll (T-ka), a-s-agsl
(A-grm), and a-s-aglu (K-d). Likewise, -lvjwu- 'bend' has Imprt lasjasw
(T-ka) and lsjaw (K-d), and VblN a-bjaww (T-ka) and α-lagwi (A-grm).
In the VblN, and in agentives and other nominalizations with -m- (-n-)
prefix, T-ka (but no other dialect) also shows Stem-Final Gemination, so the
underlying n, w, or other sonorant that finds itself after the epenthetic schwa is
doubled.
(70) Epenthetic-Vowel Accentuation (T-ka and a few other dialects)
Simultaneously with Final-CC Schwa-Insertion, the epenthetic
vowel acquires an accent (prior accents on preceding syllables are
overridden)(71) Stem-Final Gemination (T-ka only)
Simultaneously with Final-CC Schwa-Insertion, in
nominalizations (agentive, VblN)—but not in inflected verbs—Q
(i.e. the final C) is geminated after the epenthetic vowel.These processes are "morphophonological" in the sense that they are not
routine consequences of general phonological rules in the language. However,
they are closely linked to Final-CC Schwa-Insertion (which does have a fairly
clear phonological grounding).
3.3.3 Phrasal accent
The above sections have focused on how accentuation works in single word
forms. In sentences, words can be grouped into accentual phrases. In such
cases, if the final word is of one or two syllables and has no intrinsic (lexical or
grammatical) accent, default phrasal accent appears on the preceding word.
However, if the final word has a fixed (lexical or grammatical) accent, this
accent is stable regardless of what precedes it.
In theory, if the final word is an unaccented monosyllable, default accent
should appear on the penult of the next-to-last word (i.e., the antepenult of the
accentual phrase). Thus we would expect a phrase of the type [xx y], where
each letter represents a syllable, to appear as #[xx y] if neither xx nor y has a
marked accent. However, I know of no case where this actually happens.
Instead, the final syllable of the preceding word is accented, so we get [xx y].