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

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Thursday, May 1, 2003, 16:53
>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/ _______________________________________________ Alterum animi mei quaerens natus anctus harpyiae et stoici Elysiis triste praepalor. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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