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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Hungarian / Czecho-Slovakian
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <rharmsen.176.00160003@knoware.nl> <1995Jan25.225334.18193@chemabs.uucp>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:38:27 GMT
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In article <1995Jan25.225334.18193@chemabs.uucp> rmt51@cas.org () writes:
>[...] for those European languages that have a fixed stress,
>more seem to have it on the penult than anywhere else.

I'll play.  I raise you Latvian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Czech,
Slovak, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian, that is 8 (eight) European
languages with fixed word-initial stress.

I'm now waiting for a list of at least 9 (nine) European languages
with fixed penultimate stress.

:-)

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`Don't know whit ye're bletherin aboot', said Peter.    (The Glasgow Gospel)
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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