Herman Miller scripsit:
> Now if you have a language that includes tone as part of the regular system
> of sounds that make up words (what we technically refer to as a "phoneme
> inventory"), it would be possible to have a morpheme (a minimal unit of
> meaning) that is expressed entirely by changes in tone.
In the Taishan dialect of Cantonese, spoken in Chinatowns worldwide,
pronouns are pluralized by changing the tone.
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