Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>Moreover, words that end in high pitch are also separated into two
categories:
>words that extend this high pitch to particles when they follow the word
(so
>that if you add the theme marker wa to such a word, it will be in high
pitch),
>and words that don't (so that if you add the theme marker wa to such a
word, it
>will remain in low pitch). Some homophonous words with identical pitch
contour
>have only this particularity to make them different.
Aha! That's it. That's what McCawley was talking about-- with ref. to
2-syl. words only, however. I don't recall that he ever got around to
polysyllables.