[mary-users] One stress marker is not enough?

[Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer]

Yes, a secondary stress would be helpful for many German compounds.  
Think only of auseinandersetzen, Nebentätigkeitsgenehmigung,  
Oberwasser or Druckbehälter.

Cheers Brigitte

Am 12.06.2010 um 12:00 schrieb Thorsten Westermann:

> Hello!
>
> Let's take the word "UPS", pronounced "? u: - p e: - E s" in German.
>
> As far as I was able to see, we can set only 1 stress marker in  
> Mary, we use the ' symbol.
>
> But that sounds not natural.
>
> In my opinion, the word should be pronounced
>
> ? u: (no stress)
> p e: (weak stress)
> E s (strong stress)
>
> We could introduce new stress markers like e. g. ' for weak stress  
> and '' for strong stress.
>
> This way we would be able to produce more natural output.
>
> Does anybody agree or disagree?
> I would be interested to find out how others think about it...
>
> MfG,
> Westermann
>
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