Re: THEORY: Sandhi

From: "Cheng Zhong Su" <suchengzhong@...>
>   Muke Tever <alrivera@...> wrote:
> English-speaking children generally know what
> > 'stress' is?)
> >     *Muke!
> Answer: some linguist call both tone and stress super
> structur.
"Suprasegmental", I think.

> in fact, they are not similar in property.
> With two and more oral action you may put stress, but
> with single oral action you could be able put tone.
> Su Cheng Zhong
I didn't say they were similar, only that, say, an English-speaking child
wouldn't be able to explain what (phonetic) 'stress' is any more than your
hypothetical tone-language child that can't explain what 'tone' is.

    *Muke!

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