Re: Phonemic volume
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 25, 2002, 3:46 |
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En réponse à Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...>:
>
> I've always perceived the syllable stress, at least in romance
> languages, as
> a pitch change, where the higher pitch syllable is stressed, not as a
> loudness change.
>
The fact that it's not completely false in the case of Romance languages
(although the change of loudness *is* the main stress, the change of pitch is
just a bystander), it doesn't change my point. Just take a language where
stress is purely a matter of volume.
Christophe.
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