Re: /H/ (was An Unknown Conlang)

Jim Grossmann wrote:

> Re:  Tones and Pitches
>
> Careful!    AFAIK, the use of tone contrasts does not require perfect (aka
> absolute) pitch.   For example, "high" tone means high for the speaker,
> relative to the speaker's production of the other tones.    It also means
> high relative to the tone contour of the utterance, making "high" tone
> lower, for example, as the tone of the whole sentence gets lower toward the
> end.
I do know that pitch in tonal languages is based on relative pitch.  But I was
just quoting from a New York Times article on that subject. Here is the same
article at the Lexington Herald-Leader:

<http://vh80028.vh8.infi.net/heraldleader/news/110599/nationaldocs/05perfect-pitch.htm>

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