Re: tones and stress
| From: | daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 15:46 |
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Matt33 wrote:
> Don't quote me on this, but I believe Thai has 5 tones
> and stress would be dependent on the tone.
So you mean that stress always fall on the syllable with
- say - high tone? Isn't Thai (and all the other langs
thereabout) very monosyllabic? In that case stress wouldn't
be much of an issue, would it?
> Vietnamese & Lao may be worse, although I know Khmer
> is without such tone-distinction.
Vietnamese has 8 tones, doesn't it?
Sim lilda,
||| daniel
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