Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

> > > In Latin, the stress accent is alway remains on the first syllable of 
> > > the word.

> Glurps?  :)  Yippurs, always remains.  Check any standard Latin grammar 
> under stress accent.
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I cannot see the relevance of this.

In addition, the idea that Latin accent remains on the first syllable of the 
"word" is a complete fiction, in my opinion.
Please explain.

A.
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> I took this to mean that long vowels could not stand in unstressed 
> syllables.
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No
this is not the issue.
The issue is that short unstressed vowels could develop into long unstressed 
vowels,
Something that strikes me as being complete nonsense.
A.
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You apparently were talking about "pretonic vowels" becoming
> long, as part of a linguistic process?
>
> However, lookee what I found:
>
> http://www.jstor.org/pss/1517715
>
> http://www.jstor.org/pss/542171
>
> I can assume you're familiar with these articles?
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No I'm not.

If you have any free access to them, then thank you for providing it.
Otherwise you'll have to explain them yourself.

So far your statement about Greek and Latin remains completely plucked from 
the air.

A.