Stone Gordonssen cazdy:
> > > 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.
Hehe. We call it "anadewism" here in the List...
> Can you give the names of a couple of natlangs which do this? My knowledge
> of African languages is extremely sparce.
Unfortunately, no. I read it in a book a couple of years ago, and this book was
in my Mom's home in another city :( All I remember is that it happens somewhere
in West Africa.
~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~