Polysyllabism in Sinitic, and (phonemic) syllable stress

AntC wrote: To your recent point on the 'slippery, slithery' article …   There's a town on Taiwan's East coast 'Taimali' / 太麻里鄉. This name is from the indigenous Paiwan language [also here for the people]. [see wikip]   I naively pronounced it with stress on the first syllable. I was roundly corrected by the Taiwanese […]