Whenever I'm reading, it feels natural to stress in the third last syllable in situations I've seen grammars say it's stressed on the u or i... But shouldn't the u and i be thought as consonants in these situations?
Examples:
crebuĕrat - grammar: crebúerat - why not crébuerat?
muliĕres - grammar: mulíeres - why not múlieres?
potuĕrat - grammar: potúerat - ... pótuerat
debuĕrat - grammar: debúerat - ... débuerat
tenuĕrat - grammar: tenúerat - ... ténuerat
tribuĕrit - grammar: tribúerit - ... tríbuerit
promenuĕris - promenúeris - ... proménueris
insinuĕris - insinúeris - ... insínueris
(Instead of thinking syllable division as cre-bú-ĕ-rat, it would think it as cré-buĕ-rat.)
Here is another case. Shouldn't we consider the syllable with a u or i as not countable in terms of stress?
aperuit - grammar: apéruit - why not áperuit?
patefiĕrent - grammar: patefíerent - ... patéfierent
(Instead of a-pé-rŭ-it, we would have á-pĕ-ruit.)
Here on the contrary, shouldn't we think it not stressable?
fuĕrit - grammar: fúerit - why not fuérit?
fiĕri - grammar: fíeri - ... fiéri
puĕris - grammar: púeris - ... puéris
(Instead of fú-ĕ-rit, we would have fué-rit.)
It feels more likely to do the stress as though the u and i were part of the preceding consonant, in these cases... And it seems to make sense.
(As I was writing the examples, it came to mind that it would work like the qu-, the u or i would make part of the consonant, and not be treated separately...)
Does this make any sense? Has any of you ever faced this tendency when reading?
Examples:
crebuĕrat - grammar: crebúerat - why not crébuerat?
muliĕres - grammar: mulíeres - why not múlieres?
potuĕrat - grammar: potúerat - ... pótuerat
debuĕrat - grammar: debúerat - ... débuerat
tenuĕrat - grammar: tenúerat - ... ténuerat
tribuĕrit - grammar: tribúerit - ... tríbuerit
promenuĕris - promenúeris - ... proménueris
insinuĕris - insinúeris - ... insínueris
(Instead of thinking syllable division as cre-bú-ĕ-rat, it would think it as cré-buĕ-rat.)
Here is another case. Shouldn't we consider the syllable with a u or i as not countable in terms of stress?
aperuit - grammar: apéruit - why not áperuit?
patefiĕrent - grammar: patefíerent - ... patéfierent
(Instead of a-pé-rŭ-it, we would have á-pĕ-ruit.)
Here on the contrary, shouldn't we think it not stressable?
fuĕrit - grammar: fúerit - why not fuérit?
fiĕri - grammar: fíeri - ... fiéri
puĕris - grammar: púeris - ... puéris
(Instead of fú-ĕ-rit, we would have fué-rit.)
It feels more likely to do the stress as though the u and i were part of the preceding consonant, in these cases... And it seems to make sense.
(As I was writing the examples, it came to mind that it would work like the qu-, the u or i would make part of the consonant, and not be treated separately...)
Does this make any sense? Has any of you ever faced this tendency when reading?