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Re: CONLANG pitch accent (was Re: NATLANG: pitch accent question)

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Thursday, May 1, 2003, 19:17
> > I elected to use pitch to differentiate nouns (neutral accent) > from >verbs (high accent) from modifiers (low accent): > > tis [tIs] /word/ > > tís [tI_Hs] /speak/ > > tìs [tI_Ls] /with rgards to speaking/ > >IIRC, some West African lang do the same...
Cool. I'd hardored no delusions that I'd created something not found in a natlang somewhere. Can you give the names of a couple of natlangs which do this? My knowledge of African languages is extremely sparce. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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