Talk:Tunica language

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Unconventional placement of stress symbols

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”The first syllable with stress is usually a major second higher than the following syllables are except for the last. All other syllables may not be spoken with any kind of pitch, and the same goes for other unstressed syllables. For example, ta'čiyak ʔura'pʔikʔahčá "You will kill the squirrel" shows the melody. ta'- is a major second higher than the syllables that follow it except for -ča, which is a minor third higher than any syllable that comes before it other than ta'-.”

It looks as if stress symbols “'” have been placed immediately after vowels in stressed syllables rather than immediately before stressed syllables, the latter of which is customary; cf. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/IPAcharts/IPA_chart_orig/pdfs/IPA_DejaVu_2020_full.pdf under “SUPRASEGMENTALS”.

If indeed stress symbols have been placed immediately after vowels in stressed syllables, then why has that been done?

Could we agree on using the customary placement rules?Redav (talk) 22:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]