Re: Unilang: the Prosodics

>At the same time,
>though, is it easy for people used to detecting one kind of accent to
>detect another kind?
A natlang example could be Swedish. The standard dialect and most other
dialects
use pitch accent, while the dialects of Swedish in Finland use
stress-accent, and both
do (most of the time) understand each other, and recognize what syllable is
accented.

So, if people were given time to get used to it, I don't think anyone would
have any problem with the various
kinds of accent.

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