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How can writing marks help in this regard? I can imagine a language with both a lot of exceptions and writing marks.
by nemonemo 1y ago
How can writing marks help in this regard? I can imagine a language with both a lot of exceptions and writing marks.
- stouset 1y agoAccent marks give additional phonetic information.
- stevedzreams 1y agobecause you know the stress syllable by looking at the word. take Desert and Dessert, do we say DES-ert or des-ERT. Also in portuguese, at least, I can know which "e" sound [1] each "e" in the word makes by knowing this (well, almost, but not completely, but much better than English.) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
- lucasoshiro 1y agoIn Portuguese, they indicate that a syllable is stressed and alternate ways to say the vowels. e.g. "país" is stressed in "i" and means "country", while "pais" is stressed in "a" and means "parents". Tilde (~) indicates that the vowel is nasal, e.g. the "ã" in "São Paulo" means that it sounds like the "u" in "sun"; the default sound of "a" in Portuguese is the same as in "car".