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

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Thursday, May 1, 2003, 18:38
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... ~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~