Re: Perhaps a new topic of discussion

From: "B E Walker" <umwalk05@...>
> -sdeete has phonemic vowel length. would it be reasonable/naturalistic to
> have only long vowels carry high tone? i find this concept intrinsically
> pleasing for some absurd reason, but i don't know if there's any natlang
> precedent for it.
Well... for that particularly, I don't know.

But if only because long vowels _are_ long, it's possible for them to have more
options:  in Ancient Greek for example (when it had pitch accent), any vowel
could have high (acute) or low (grave, the default) pitch, but a long could also
have rising-falling (circumflex).  (Is that right?  Or is circumflex just
falling?  Or am I off entirely?)




    *Muke!

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