Re: A new Indo-European subfamily in China

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > go to google.com and punch in "tonogenesis".
>
> I did, and turned up a Conlang article from January 1993 on incipient
> tonogenesis in Klingon.  Apparently the glottal-stop finals are accompanied
> by high pitch, and if the glottals get lost (not unlikely), Klingon will
> have a high/low tone distinction.
Huh. No kidding. This is, of course, what one would expect; glottal
stop induces high pitch in Gosiute, for instance. I wonder about the
speaker sample for Klingon, though. Was this result verified
instrumentally? I suppose I'd better take a look ...

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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