Re: Pitch

En réponse à Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@...>:

>
> Instead of "instead", I would say that
> the stress and the rise in pitch go always together.
>
No. For instance, in Japanese, if we don't count intonation which is not
connected to the pitch-accent, all syllables have the same amount of stress,
whether they are low- or high-pitched.

>
> From another point of view, it is the lowering what matters,
> because the rising takes no time.
But while I know that quite a lot of Japanese words are differentiated on the
position of their rising pitch, I know no minimal pair that differentiates only
on the position of the dropping pitch. In Japanese at least, it's the rising
pitch which is important.

Christophe.

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