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Re: Questions (mostly about phonemics)

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Sunday, January 21, 2007, 1:04
In a message dated 1/20/2007 5:38:39 PM Central Standard Time,
leon_math@YAHOO.COM writes:


> 2.2. After repeating the 4th tone over and over, I still do not see how it > 'falls'. It just seems to be a shorter version of the 1st tone, sort of like > the difference in the length of the a's in "man" and "hat".
I think you need to hear the two tones together more, then, to learn how different they sound. They are quite distinct. stevo

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Adam Walker <carrajena@...>