Re: intonation in your conlangs

Estel wrote:

<<Anyone else notice that they have different intonation patterns in
their conlang?>>

You know what I've noticed?   I'm not any damn good and speaking, or even
reading aloud, any of my languages--not even Kamakawi.   The only one I'm kind of
good at is Kele, but that one doesn't count, for various reasons (e.g., it's
not meant to be a realistic language in the way the others are, but is
actually meant to be a functional language, that I would use right now).   Of all of
them, the one I can do best is actually Njaama: The tone language with clicks.
  I think this is because all words are of certain types, by which I mean...

(1) All the syllables have high tones, and all the vowels are short.
(2) All the syllables have low vowels, and all the vowels are short.
(3) There's a switch from having high tones to having low tones, and all the
vowels are short.
(4) There's a switch from having low tones to having high tones, and all the
vowels are short.

(5-8) Repeat the above, except there's a long vowel (may be two in short
words).

So what I think happened is I only have to get a few basic patterns, and then
add phonology.   And then the intonation is radically different, since it's a
pitch-accent language.   Nevertheless, there is phrasal stress, in that
greater emphasis is placed on the heads of noun phrases, and occasionally the verb.
  (By "emphasis", I think I mean "volume", and maybe length, but emphasis is
hard to quantify.)   To indicate a question, the entire register rises.   So,
whereas a high tone is usually about 4 and a low tone 1, in a question, this
raises to 5 and 2, or even 5 and 3, and then the same intonation rule applies.

Hey, anyone have any idea where I can hear some spoken Turkish?   I at least
partly modeled the Zhyler stress system after Turkish, but I've never actually
heard it.   It might help.

-David