Re: tones and stress
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 15:27 |
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On Sun, 6 May 2001 21:05:04 +0200, daniel andreasson
<daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:
>I have a question regarding tones. Do languages that have
>tones also have stress? Or does the stress fall somewhat
>regularly on every syllable? Or perhaps this is different
>in different languages?
I don't see why *most* tonal langs can be viewed as having stress beside
tones. In some, the position of stress is phonemically significant.
IMO the Mandarin system can be interpreted this way. Different types of
(historical) compounds can have different stress patterns. It seems that
tonic and pretonic syllables always differentiate tones, posttonic
syllables mostly don't (or never do?).
Basilius