Re: Question about Questions

In a message dated 9/16/01 2:51:12 PM, cinga@GMX.NET writes:

<< That got me wondering what such an interrogative intonation would sound
like...  all languages I've come in contact with so far raise the pitch
of the voice towards the end of the sentence.  Is that some sort of
global constant of human communication or just another IEism?  What
other ways are there in the langs of the world? >>

    I'm fairly sure that Russian doesn't do this.  Or wait, it does...  But
only kind of...?

"Vy govoritye po-ruski?"

What's the stress pattern on that?  I'm almost inclined to say that it's (and
I hope this comes out correctly):


                    ri-
Vy go-vo-

               tye pa-ruski?

Is this right?

-David

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