jeff_l
(Jeff_L)
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96 3 Phonology
preverb + verb
c. ad 0-asks
Fut 3MaSgS-eat.ShImpf
'He will eat.'
d. war i-jla
Neg 3MaSgS-go.PerfP
'He didn't go.'
preposition + noun
e. daer ae-ho
in smoke
'in (the) smoke'
demonstrative + verb (in definite relative clauses)
f. w-ά 0-tastt
Ma-Sg/Dem 3FeSgS-eat.LoImpfP
'what she eats' (see §3.5.3)
numeral + noun
g. maeraw-set ded-en
ten-Fe woman-FePl
'ten women'
h. sssln efd-αη [A-grm]
3ssm afd-asn [K-d]
two thousand-Pi
'two thousand'
If clitics occur after the first word of the sequence they are included in the
accentual phrase, as in (73.a) above. If the clitic has a vowel, the accent may
end up on the clitic, as in a-\tset 0-aeks 'he will eat it-FeSg', cf. (73.c) above.
Suppose now that an accentual phrase has two or more syllables to the left
of the rightmost accent (whether the latter is lexical or default). If the phrase is
uttered smoothly, there is often a pattern of secondary accent on alternate
syllables counting back from this rightmost accent.
This applies even to over-long single words, such as t-ifarsassin-asn 'they
(=hides) are coarse' or l-t-ifarsassin 'it is coarse', where Default Accentuation
gives primary phonetic accent to the antepenult. A slight secondary accent may
be heard on the word-initial syllable, which is two syllables from the rightmost
accent. Secondary accents are not as reliable as rightmost accents, particularly
since they require the speaker to compute the accent of the entire long word
from right to left before beginning its articulation. In a case like 'it is coarse',
in actual discourse the speaker may begin the word as i-t-1..., since the second i
actually carries an underlying ablaut accent; in this event we may end up with
