Re: Accent Terminology Question

At 5:43 PM -0400 10/14/02, David Peterson wrote:
>Dirk wrote:
>
><<I think so. Your messages come to me in 8 point blue type, so it's
>hard to read. In your system, is "1" low and "2" high? If so, the
>"1" on _le_ is unusual; since the suffix already has tone, there's
>no need for a default "1" to be inserted creating a universally
>dispreferred (even if parochially tolerated) configuration.>>
>
>(P.S.: It shouldn't come out blue anymore.  As for 8 pt. font...
>I'm sending it with 12, so I don't know how that's happening.)
No, it's not blue anymore; now it's bright red. And it's still very
small. Oh well.

>Yes, 1 is low, 2 is high.  I was imagining a constraint whereby
>words have to end with a low tone in certain circumstances.  Or
>something.  And so, rather than losing it's underlying high tone and
>getting a low one, it gets a contour tone (falling), pointing to the
>underlying high tone.
Okay. This is an interesting constraint; it sounds reasonable, but
I'm not a tonologist.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                             Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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