Zompist Bboard Again

I still want for words with only light syllables to have preantepenultimate stress, and for a final superheavy syllable to be stressed, but not a merely heavy one. I’d honestly be really surprised to see a language with preantepenultimate stress — it just seems like a bit of an artificial rule to m...

… the first vowel [of the causative] is lengthened to attract the stress … I’m not quite sure what you mean by this, and I’m finding it a bit difficult to figure out what’s happening in the examples. My best guess is that you’re saying that the causative affix must be stressed on the first syllable...

Sequences of two short vowels aren’t allowed. i u → j v / V_ V₁V₂ → V₁ː / _ Verb roots are two or three morae long, and usually end in a vowel. Examples: damā- ‘to go (by foot)’ hadøl- ‘to speak’ vęši- ‘to be standing’ mē- ‘to flee, to run away’ The causative is formed by the root extension -ida- or...

Sheimati words are regularly stressed on the fourth mora from the end. However, if the second and third morae from the end belong to the same syllable, that syllable receives the stress. This is the only bit of your phonology which strikes me as being not quite right — ‘fourth mora from the end’ se...

Sorry, bad example; I should have used something like /ban/. That is, what happens to voiced consonants in word-initial syllable onsets? Depends on the previous word. If it’s after a pause, or if follows a nasal or a liquid, it’s a plosive. Otherwise, it’s a fricative if unstressed and either one i...

/b d ɡ/ are realized as plosives only at the beginning of an utterance and after a nasal, /l/ or /ɾ/. Otherwise, in the onset of an unstressed syllable, they lenite to the corresponding fricatives [β ð ɣ]. In the onset of a stressed syllable, both sets of allophones can occur in free variation; I’l...

Introduction Hey everyone! I’ve been a lurker for a really long time, at least 6 years, but only recently decided to sign up, mostly to motivate myself to start writing again. I’ve been adjacent to the conlanging community for a really long time, but I’m not really experienced, especially compared ...