Re: COMMENTS: Hiksilipsi Tone

On 17 Apr 02, at 15:46, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Nothing in particular marks the tone break, except in orthography (and
> maybe not even there.  I haven't really worked out orthography yet.)  It's
> idiosyncratic and lexically specified, like stress in English, and it may
> come before or after the whole word.  For example, all of the following
> would be valid tone patterns for a three-syllable word (the pipe marks
> the tone break):
>
> |lo-lo-lo     hi-|lo-lo     hi-hi-|lo     hi-hi-hi|
That reminds me of Japanese pitch accent (which I never learned during
the four or so years where I learned Japanese): I found it interesting
when I learned later that the tone break may occur after the word
itself -- so that the word can influence the pitch of a following
particle.

Do you have neutral (probably monosyllabic) particles / postpositions /
whatever as well, which are usually high, but are low if they
immediately follow a word-final tone break? That is, they have no
"built-in" pitch but assume a high one as the natural beginning-of-word
pitch except when they follow a tone break which forces the neutral
pitch to become low?

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>