Re: Lots of Questions About Tones
| From: | David McCann <david@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 11, 2008, 23:06 |
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So it looks as if consonant loss and merger don't generate tones
directly, but produce registers - breathy or creaky voice - that later
become tones? This certainly seems more plausible.
It also looks as if the same circumstances can generate different tones.
The Proto-Athabascan -taʔ gives opposite results in different languages
if the glottal stop is lost: Chipewyan -tá but Sarcee -tà. Presumably
one case involved creaky voice, the other not.
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