Timeline for Is there a difference in word stress between 会 as a time marker and 会 as an auxiliary verb meaning "to know how to"?
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| Aug 4, 2022 at 13:32 | comment | added | Sanchuan | Again, this is not about whether stress affects meaning, but whether meaning affects stress. I agree with you that prosodic features do not affect meaning. So there's no question that both 会s, given the right context, can receive any kind of stress - but do they otherwise tend to receive different kinds of stress in most neutral contexts? Is there a tendency for 会 to be stressed more when used in sense 1 vs sense 2? Anyway, I take it from your answer that you don't perceive or produce any difference in stress no matter the meaning of 会, so that's good to know. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 12:32 | comment | added | dan | @Sanchuan The stress, volume, duration, etc wouldn't affect the meaning IMO. The only thing matters in this case is context. That's what I'm trying to make of. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 9:33 | comment | added | Sanchuan | I don't think the question here is about whether the meaning of 会 is determined by tone or whether it's determined by context. The question is about whether the two different meanings of 会 are normally associated with two different types of stress. Please note that stress is not tone; it's volume and duration. So: is the 会 in B1 said a bit faster than the 会 in B? I know it's a very subtle difference, but that's what the question is about. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 9:01 | history | answered | dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |