Re: Pronouncing with no accent

From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Sun Dec 21 1997 - 23:36:40 EST

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>How do you pronounce a word like ESMEN when it has no accent?
>
Like the last two syllables of the word in front of it. If the word in
front of it has an acute on the antepenult or a circumflex on the penult,
add an acute on the ultima, hence A/NQRWPO/S ESTIN or DW=RO/N ESTIN. But
QEO/S ESTIN.

Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
Pineville, LA 71359
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winbery@andria.lacollege.edu

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