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

[Ingmar Steiner]

I would like to point out that Mary does handle secondary stress, here is an overview:

IPA	Mary	SAMPA	description
ˈ	'	"	primary stress
ˌ	,	%	secondary stress

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the 4.0 release wrt stress propagation in MaryXML, which has however been fixed in the development version.

Best wishes,

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On 12 Jun 2010, at 20:42, Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer wrote:

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