Re: yet another new lang sketch (sorry) [ + pitch-stress, + Welsh]

John Cowan wrote:
> Too strong.  Mandarin has many toneless syllables, especially
> grammatical particles (their pitch is determined in a complex way
> by the tones of surrounding syllables).
Ah, so these "toneless" syllables carry a tone determined solely by
their environment?  Never knew that.  Still, are there any lexical items
that are toneless?

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