Re: tones and stress
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 8:17 |
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On 6 May, 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?
IIRC, Igbo, a lang spoken in Nigeria and belonging to the
Niger-Congo family, has both distinctive tones _and_
distinctive stress. In other words, a word may change its
meaning depending upon which tone is used with it
and/or which syllable is stressed. (not to mention the distinction
between explosive and implosive consonants!)
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
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