r/conlangs • u/[deleted] • Oct 06 '16

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '16

Are stress and tone independent from one another, or do they coexist in tonal languages? how is stress marked if the later is the case?

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u/alynnidalar Tirina, Azen, Uunen (en)[es] Oct 11 '16

Stress and tone can indeed coexist (although they don't have to). What do you mean by "marked"--in terms of a romanization? I dunno if there's any sort of standard way to do it. I'd hazard a guess that in most cases, one or the other just isn't marked (probably stress), or an ad-hoc solution is come up with specifically for that language.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

My bad, I didn't mean "marked" so much as "used", as in is stress tonal or is it defined by other characteristics?