Re: Open questions on Chevraqis

Hi!

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> My idea was that (as in Korean? and Japanese) the accented syllable has
> higher pitch.  I didn't actually conceive of anything more complex.  The
> rules for Japanese, if I understand the !@#$ thing correctly, are actually
> a bit more complicated than that, but I knew nothing formally about
> pitch-accent when I had the idea.  :-/
Actually, I just bought `The Languages of Japan' and it tells me that
the Japanese pitch rules are not only more complex than your current
rule, but that they are also totally different from town to town. :-)
There seem to be towns that only have one pitch.  That's quite
monotonic, then. :-)

One thing I liked was that obviously there are words that have the
accent after their last mora.  So accents are theoretically not
assigned to morae in Japanese, but to mora boundaries (so for an
n-moraic word, there are n+1 possible accent positions).

**Henrik

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