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Re: tonal languages

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 18:10
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 > - > > 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 -- We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensk

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Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>