b'Because of this complexity, antepenultimate stress is marked in the dictionary (but not in other text).Any other stress placement is not marked on other words, unless there is some other reason for it to be shown. The pronunciation of vowels frequently alters under the influence of vowel agreement between the vowels in a morpheme and those in affixes, or vowels in separate parts of compounds.This agreement is termed vowel harmony and is shown in a few examples. When the purposive suffix -la is added to a noun to show the purpose for which something is being used, the nouns vowels change: bagula a food garden bigule.la sthg its garden(a garden for.) dakunaa stonedikune.lathe wall its stone(a stone for.) pakulablamepikole.la sthg its blame(blame for.) In class 3 verbs, which derive a transitive verb stem from its intransitive verb stem, the rigid consonants and changing vowels are much in evidence: Intransitive verb Derived transitive stem -kokolato fear-kukolito fear sthg -dodigato load -didagito load goods -yobato expel-yabito expel s.o. Vowel harmony takes place when the vowels of an affix harmonise in some way with vowels in the stem.Some examples follow. mola-gwadiyoungest male person here(vila-gwadifemale) moli-tomoya oldest male person here (vili-tomoyafemale) molu-luwala males in middle of group(vilu-luwelafemale) Sometimes vowel harmony makes alternative forms acceptable: -mita-gibugibuor-miti-gibugibu to turn away angrily -miti-kuviviaor -mitu-kuviviato long for absent friends 16'