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strong stress; on a long voiced sound (a-, nr etc.) there is 

 likewise necessarily strong stress. 



If a series of similarly constructed syllables follow 

 each other, each one of them receives some stress and in quiet 

 speaking, they all receive the same stress. At all events the 

 shades of difference between the stress in such syllables are 

 much finer than those we are accustomed to in our language 

 and they do not furnish any characteristic feature in tlie pro- 

 nunciation of such words. That which is characteristic is the 

 monotony, the even distribution of the stress (the even pressure 

 of the outgoing breath). 



In words of two or three syllables, sucli even stress is 

 frequent. The more syllables a word consists of. the greater 

 is the chance that one of the syllables will be differently con- 

 structed from the rest. An unstressed syllable occiirs in the 

 position of a short syllable before or between long (strong) 

 syllables. If a short syllable comes before a long one (type : 

 ata- or kata-) . the first is unstressed in relation to the last 

 (at'a- kata-). Hut two long syllables following after each other 

 are evenly stressed Cat-^w a-4h.c 'a•^Vг Urt-Urk). Now since short 

 syllables are not much more frequent than long syllables, we may 

 conclude, that the relatively unstressed syllables are not much 

 more frequent than the strongly stressed ones. The unstressed 

 syllables are. accordingly, not nearly as numerous in the Eskimo 

 language as in our language. The language has no words which 

 are unstressed; most of its polysyllabic words contain more than 

 one stressed syllable. And the stress always occurs before or 

 in conjunction with the long sounds (consonants or vowels). 



Yet there is one syllable in the word which, no matter 

 what its quantity, seems to have a tendency to attract the 

 stress to itself; that is the last syllable. Even a short 

 vowel in the end of a word is never unstressed. If the word 

 ends in a consonant {q, k, t), its last syllable is always stressed, 

 even if the vowel in it is short. 



