Scott Morrison wrote:

>Steve Schwartz:
>
>>If all (or almost all) Hungarian words are stressed on the first syllable,
>>then what does the thing that looks like an acute accent do to the
>>pronunciation of Barto'k's name?
>
>It alters the quality of the vowel, not the accent on the vowel.  O' o'
>(accent aigu, in French, but we can't show it in ASCII here) simply
>denotes a long o, as in the English word 'show.'

You mean his name is not pronounced "bar talk"?

Walter Meyer