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

>Conlangwise, my Notya has pitch-accent, but it's not lexical per se.
>Rather, a word in Notya has a circumflex pitch, with the maximum of pitch
>on the last syllable of the root, and the pitch going down on
>both sides.
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/



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