Re: CHAT: new names (was: Re: Bopomofo and pinyin)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 1:40 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> Many foreigners speaking other Germanic languages
> mistake this higher pitch for a final stress, for some reason.
Presumably because, in those languages, pitch is a secondary
characteristic of accent.
For that reason, I find it *extremely* difficult to make a low-pitch
stressed syllable, especially along with other syllables.
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