Re: THEORY: Tonogenesis

-Pablo Flores wrote:

>I'm looking for help on the mechanism of tonogenesis,
>since I think I want to try a tonal language >
There are articles-- books, I doubt-- by James Matisoff, a Tibeto-Burmanist
at Berkeley, on just that topic.  I'll try to find some references in the
next few days, or others may have them more readily to hand......?.
(snip....)
and mentions an "entering tone" (which, I
>seem to remember, has something to do with the voicing
>of the onset consonant).
>As BPJ and I mentioned a few days back, re Khmer (Wish List thread?),
historically, voiced initials tend to (a) devoice and (b) cause low tone.
Roger