Re: Split-Ergativity Madness
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 3:38 |
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D. Tse/Imperative wrote:
>That's right, Japanese has pitch accent, but as I recall, it wildly
>varies between cities, with some cities having near-monotonous pitch
>accent...
Yes, very complicated. IIRC James McCawley wrote his PhD diss. on the
subject (or at least knew a VERY great deal about it); he inundated us with
the data in a phonology course
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>/háSi/ chopsticks
>/haSí/ bridge
There is even a third possibility, though I forget the details. It has to
do with the particle _ga_ following certain words. Possibly either /haSi
gá/ (lo-lo-hi) or maybe /háSí ga/ (hi-hi-lo); something like that at any
rate.
>And I have no experience with Serbo-Croat, but I think it is a pitch-
>accent language, apparently with rising and falling pitch, on
>stressed and unstressed syllables.
Lithuanian too, as I understand it.