Re: Lots of Questions About Tones
| From: | Alex Fink <000024@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2008, 4:09 |
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:46:09 +0100, David McCann <david@...>
wrote:
>Imagine a language with /bas/ and /bat/. If the contrast between /p/
>and /b/ is lost, /ba-/ is likely to acquire a high or rising tone in
>becoming /pa-/.
_High_ or rising? AIUI voiced stops in the onset are supposed to have a
lowering effect, generally I believe because of (possibly subphonemic)
breathiness, so they'd yield low (or rising?) tones.
Alex
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