Re: Tone/Pitch Accent Question

David Peterson sikyal:

> Jesse wrote:
>
> <<However, there are tone languages that are not strictly algorithmic, in
> which some tones are pre-attatched to some syllables, which would allow
> both patterns above to exist in the same language.>>
>
> I had this idea that some syllables could have underlying tone.   One thing
> that it seems doesn't happen, though, is for a syllable to have an underlying
> low tone.   Have you (or has anyone else) ever heard of something like this?
Hmmm, I don't think so. In languages w/ a pitch accent, the marked
(accented) syllable has high tone. I don't know if there's anything that
strictly prohibits you from doing things your way, though.


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