Quick pitch/tone question
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:02 am
Is the correct term for the following system a pitch accent? The wiki page is a little mixed and get the sense that the use of the term is as well.
Within any given word at most one syllable may receive stress. The same syllable is also marked for either high or low tone. All other syllables are unstressed and do not have variable tone (excluding prosodic features, etc. of course).
Within any given word at most one syllable may receive stress. The same syllable is also marked for either high or low tone. All other syllables are unstressed and do not have variable tone (excluding prosodic features, etc. of course).