Re: THEORY: Tonogenesis
| From: | Kevin Athey <kevindeanathey@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 4, 2005, 16:10 |
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>From: Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
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>In Rokbeigalmki, the 'accent-lengthened' (lengthened) and
>'tilde-lengthened' (double-lengthened) eventually develop into rising
>and falling tones, respectively. I'm not sure why... i just end up
>accidentally doing that to them when i speak, so i thought it must be a
>natural development ;) . The tilde-lengthened vowels, actually,
>developed from some kinds of combinations of vowels and consonants back
>in the proto-language.
My original tonogenesis paradigm for Þewthaj involved a baroque pattern of
vowel length and height as well as whether post-stress syllables were
dropped. (They all were, but some words had word-final stress.) I didn't
have the right feel in my head, so I abandoned it. Yours does seem to work
better, though.
>(one of Rokbeigalmki's unique 'palindromic powerful phenomena' words)
_That_ is an interesting idea.
Athey
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