Re: Perhaps a new topic of discussion
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 9:46 |
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At 23:34 2001-05-11 -0400, Muke Tever wrote:
>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?)
No, you got it absolutely right.
/BP 8^)>
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