Re: Pitch
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 12:42 |
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--- Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@...> wrote: > > >
First off, what's the opposite of
> tonogenesis?
>
> Tonodegeneration?
>
> > pitch accent is realised as a rise in pitch,
> > but the rules to position this rise of pitch
> > can be formulated in terms of accented syllable.
> > Basically, instead of a rise in volume you have a
> rise in pitch..
>
> Instead of "instead", I would say that
> the stress and the rise in pitch go always together.
>
not so in welsh english. that has a noticable drop on
stressed syllables ( and makes welsh english easy to
parody even if you can't get the phonemes right ). i
_think_ it's similar in indian english ( parodic
indian accents are usually like welsh parodic, but
with retroflex /t/ and /d/ and reduced aspiration )
likewise sentence final french stress falls, but that
is a special position
bn
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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre
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