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<p><font face="Calibri">Dear Iker and all,</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">There is also this English article:<br>
Hualde, J., Lujanbio, O., & Torreira, F. (2008). Lexical
tone and stress in Goizueta Basque. Journal of the International
Phonetic Association, 38(1), 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0025100308003241</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/lexical-tone-and-stress-in-goizueta-basque/651E04A5226C7924CAA5C297EBDCE36A">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/lexical-tone-and-stress-in-goizueta-basque/651E04A5226C7924CAA5C297EBDCE36A</a></font>
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Best regards,<br>
Alexandre<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">27/09/2017 10:48, Iker Salaberri пишет:<br>
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<div>I forward this message to Lingtyp so everyone can see it.
Apologies for multiple posting.</div>
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Date: 27 September 2017 at 10:44<br>
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] tone alone marking plural nouns?<br>
To: Mike Cahill <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Mr. Cahill,<br>
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<div>Regarding your question about non-African languages
that mark the singular/plural distinction solely by means
of tone, perhaps the following data can be useful to you: </div>
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<div>One dialect of Basque, that spoken in the town of
Goizueta (High Navarre, in northern Spain), which belongs
to the dialect group of High Navarrese but is very
distinct (due mostly to its use of tone, which is an
archaic feature inherited from older Basque), is notorious
for marking the singular/plural distinction solely by
means of contour tone in some classes of nouns. I myself
am a native speaker of Standard Basque (which has no tone
distinctions) and have friends who speak the Goizueta
dialect, and I'm completely unable to tell the difference
between singular and plural (unless I infer from context
and verb agreement) when I speak with them and they use
their dialect. </div>
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<div>Unfortunately, hardly any literature in English exists
on this topic, but there are some things in Basque. I have
taken the following examples from Hualde & Lujanbio
(2008: 379, which I attach) i.e. the paradigms for gizon
''man'' and mendi ''mountain'' (where ´ = rising tone, ` =
falling tone):</div>
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<div> gizon ''man'' mendi
''mountain''</div>
<div>ABS gizóna gizònak mendía mendìk </div>
<div>ERG gizónak gizònak mendík mendìk</div>
<div>DAT gizónari gizònari mendíri mendìri </div>
<div>COM gizónakin gizònakin mendíkin mendìkin</div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
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<div>Iker Salaberri</div>
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<div class="h5">On 26 September 2017 at 23:39, Mike
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Starting with some research
on marking tone in African orthographies, I’ve
come across 37 languages that mark the
singular and plural distinction of at least
some of their nouns solely by tone.
Interestingly, in about 2/3 of these so far,
the plural has some sort of higher tone than
the singular. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for other
examples of the same thing, particularly
non-African. Wayne Leman sent me some Cheyenne
examples. In Cheyenne, there seems no
consistent pattern of either raising or
lowering the tone of the plural – it’s all
over the place. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m hoping some of you know
of other languages that do this kind of thing.
Of course, I’m not averse to hearing about
African languages – it may be quite possible
you know of a language I don’t have on my list
yet. Please copy me directly (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mike_cahill@sil.org"
target="_blank">mike_cahill@sil.org</a>) as
well as the list!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike Cahill</p>
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