Re: NATLANG: pitch accent question

En réponse à Elyse Grasso :

>I'm not sure what you mean by contrastive tones on a lexical level.
>Standard Japanese has standard tone patterns. But they happen more on
>the sentence level, and I can't think of any specific words that differ
>only by tone pattern.
There has already been the example with "sake":rice wine/salmon, and
there's the usual example "hana": HL: nose, LH: flower.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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