Re: When are Pitch-accents and Tonemes too bothersome?

Garth Wallace scripsit:

> >Cantonese has 11 tones at the emic level: split ping, shang, and qu
> >tones; high, medium, and low ru tones; and two "changed" (morphemic)
> >tones.  Etically there are only six, or seven in older usage.
>
> Wait, how can there be more tones at the emic level than at the etic
> level?
I probably should have said "at the systematic level".

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