[lit-ideas] Re: linguistic question
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:04:27 -0800 (PST)
There are rules for this but in English they are not very fixed. Usually it is
said that the main semantic root will be accented rather than prefixes and
suffixes - hence re'cord where re is perceived as a prefix or pre'sent. By the
time 'record' becomes a noun 're' is probably not perceived as a prefix any
more (I guess).
O.K.
(an ESL teacher on a looong vacation)
--- On Sat, 12/6/08, dsavory@xxxxxxxxx <dsavory@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: dsavory@xxxxxxxxx <dsavory@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] linguistic question
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 5:44 PM
Dear all,
Can anyone say more about the origin of or reason why nouns get their stress on
the first syllable and verbs on the second in words that can be either?
I just scratched my new REcord.
I need a camera to reCORD this.
Here is your Christmas PREsent.
Here to preSENT the award for outstanding actor is...
Does this happen in other languages or just English? Is this even a consistent
pattern in English? Is JL even around any more?
David Savory
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