Re: Lots of Questions About Tones
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 11, 2008, 23:43 |
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However you replied to this broke the thread, fyi. Showed up as a new
conversation...
But I thought creaky/breathy developed from pitch tones, rather than
the reverse?
On 7/11/08, David McCann <david@...> wrote:
> 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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