Excerpt from Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl Language
Pauses in words are very frequent, and are almost always accom panted by an increased stress of the preceding consonant. I have found it impossible in this language to distinguish clearly between consonants articulated with ordinary stress and increased stress, although the latter are undoubtedly found, p. E., ky'e, no.
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