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Re: Morphology



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> Another example I've heard is "ca dzukla ma" versus "cadzu klama". Even
> I wondered at first how to disambiguate the speech stream "cabdei cerni"
> from "cabdeicerni". But all of these examples can be
> effectively disambiguated in the speech stream by listening to the primary
> stress in the words.

Yes, I know that primary stress will resolve these cases.

> "lo re spajipci" is "lo re spaJIPci", whereas "lo
> respa jipci" is "lo RESpa JIPci".

However, the stress for cmavo is not restricted.  Therefore it
is possible to say "lo RE spa JI pci" and this can be either
"lo RE spaJIPci" with a stressed cmavo or "lo REspa JIPci" as two gismu.

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