The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
The phonetics of suprasegmentals - Linguistics - University of ...
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Segmental Independence<br />
Prosodic systems (Hyman, 2006)<br />
A tone language is one which pitch enters into the lexical<br />
representation <strong>of</strong> at least some morphemes. Pitch is used<br />
paradigmatically.<br />
A stress language is a language where pitch may be used<br />
syntagmatically. Stress languages have the following properties:<br />
1 Culminativity: every word has at most one syllable which is the most<br />
prominent.<br />
2 Obligatoriness: every word has at least one syllable which is more<br />
prominent than another.<br />
However, both types <strong>of</strong> languages may use pitch to contrast meaning<br />
on words.<br />
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