Greetings. I am finishing my dissertation in linguistics, and Czech syllables play a very small, but very IMPORTANT part in my work. I understand that in Czech the first syllable of the word gets stressed. Is my understanding correct? Also, do stressed syllables in Czech tend to have more consonants than unstressed syllables (both before and after the vowel)? Also, when native speakers of English say words like "prescription" and "prefer," we sometimes say "perscription" and "perfer," but we never say things like "perview" (for preview) or "perlude" (for prelude). The difference is that in "prescription" and "prefer," the "pre" is in an unstressed syllable. Do native speakers of Czech do similar things in Czech syllables? Thanks for the help. Clif Armstrong
