Re: Tono....death?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> but the main phenomenon is the rise of pitch, not its lowering.
Not entirely true.  Some dialects of Japanese use a drop in pitch.  The
main difference is that tone must be marked on every syllable, while
pitch-accent need be marked on only one syllable of the word (at most -
some languages have predictable pitch-accent, just as stress-accent may
be predictable)

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