Re: tonal languages
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 18:10 |
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:51:24PM -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:28:15 -0500 "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
> > If you leave out the "clipped" tones, I could see five. But the
> > seven is correct if you want to take into account all the tone sandhi
> > variables. Tones 4 and 8 (remember, there is technically no tone 6)
> > when followed by proper ending-consonants (p, t, k) behave
> > differently than when they end in a glottal stop (which I have
> > never heard as distinctly as in Shanghainese).
>
> > Kou
> -
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> How is there no tone 6?
[snip]
Historical accident, I think. Didn't it come from some Hokkien poem, which
describes 8 tones but two of them are identical?
T
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