CLAS 1800X Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transitive Verb, Preposition And Postposition, Penultima
21 May 2016
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A syllable has a vowel/diphthong, possible consonants. Divides two adjacent vowels/diphthongs: dea (goddess) de-a. Put any single intervening consonant with the second: pecunia (money) pe-cu-ni-a. If two or more consonants intervene, only the second is placed with the second vowel/diphthong: vacca (cow) vac-ca. Some consonantal clusters are counted as one consonant: ch,ph, th. eg. architectus, ar-chi-tec-tus, qu,gu. eg. lingua (language) lin-gua. Stop + liquid = one consonant: stop: b,c,d,g,p,t, liquid: l,r, eg. lacrima (tears) la-cri-ma. Sometimes gu is just g" u": eg. gustare (snack) gust-ar-e. A syllable is long if: it contains a long vowel or diphthong (eg. pe-cu-ni-a, it contains a short vowel followed by two or more consonants (eg. gus-ta-re) X", z" thought of as double consonants (x = ks) Trisyllabic words or more: accented on penultima if long, otherwise on antepenulitma. De nition: a group of words that expresses a complete thought, can stand alone.
