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Re: ReTonogenesis

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:03
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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