Re: ReTonogenesis

Hi!

Kevin Athey <kevindeanathey@...> writes:
> 1)  Pitch accent:  (Japanese) Each word may or may not have an accented
> syllable.  The relative pitch of each syllabe (H and L in Japanese) is
> determined by where it falls relative to the accented syllable.  That is, in
> fact, all the accent means.  Length and amplitude do not generally vary, as
> they would in a stress accent.
Wait -- I thought that the Japanese accent falls on morae *breaks*,
not on the morae themselves.  Therefore, an n-morae word has (n+1)
accent positions.  The pitches generated by the accent, of cause,
materialise on the morea then.

Maybe when you say that a word has *no* accent, you mean the accent is
at its very end?  In that case, a suffixed postposition shows the
pitch change.

**Henrik

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