<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Another "catalogue" perspective.</div><div dir="ltr">Based on a sample of 2621 tone languages, we find that in languages with only two tonal contrasts, after languages with only level tones (typically, but not exclusively, H vs. L), it is more common to find a system exclusively consisting of contour tones than it is to have one level and one contour tone.[1] With systems having more than two contrasts, mixed systems very quickly rule the roost, though H M L holds up well, and with 7 or more contrasts all systems are a mixture of level and contour tones (though we note that there are only 145 such systems in the database with tonal systems so elaborate, 5.5% of the whole).<br><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="295" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);border-collapse:collapse;width:221pt"><colgroup><col width="53" style="width:40pt"><col width="67" span="3" style="width:50pt"><col width="41" style="width:31pt"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" width="53" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt;width:40pt"></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="67" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;width:50pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">level</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="67" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;width:50pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">contour</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="67" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;width:50pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">mixed</font></td><td class="gmail-xl70" width="41" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;width:31pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">n</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">2</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">72%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">20%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">8%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">890</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">3</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">47%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">9%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">44%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">570</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">4</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">5%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">5%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">90%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">505</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">5</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">1%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">4%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">95%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">291</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">6</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">3%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">97%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">210</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">7</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">100%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">67</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">8</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">100%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">50</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">9</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">100%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">18</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">10+</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">0%</font></td><td class="gmail-xl68" align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">100%</font></td><td align="right" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">20</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>So it's not really a shock to learn of a language with only contour tones, especially if it's a small tone system.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking just at the languages with only contour tones (10.4% of the sample), 65% have only two contrasts, 19% have 3 contrasts, 9% have four, 5% have five, and just seven languages have six contrasts. These most elaborate contour-only systems (with six contrasts) are all from southern China; here the tones before the '|' are found in syllables ending with a vowel, glide, or nasal, and those after the '|' are those found with -p<font face="arial, sans-serif"> -t -k or <font color="#000000">-ʔ; note that some level tones emerge in this part of the system, with only Qiyang, Chadong, and the Liula dialect of Lakkia surviving.</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="933" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);border-collapse:collapse;width:700pt"><colgroup><col width="253" style="width:190pt"><col width="217" style="width:163pt"><col width="336" style="width:252pt"><col width="127" style="width:95pt"></colgroup><tbody><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" align="left" width="253" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt;width:190pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Zhuang-Nin</span>gming</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="217" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;width:163pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HH- HM MM- ML MH MHM</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="336" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;width:252pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">343 32 35 43 54 21 | 44 55 11</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" width="127" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;width:95pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tai-Kadai</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl67" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Qiyang</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HL LML MHL MHM MLHM HLML</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">231 342 442 453 2142 4232</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tibeto-Burman_Sinitic_Xiang</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl70" align="left" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sui-Sandong_Hezhai</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HL HM ML LM MH LML</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">121 42 32 53 35 13 | 55 35 33 32</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tai-Kadai</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl70" align="left" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Zhuang-Jingxi</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HM ML LM MH MLH LMLM</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">54 31 2323 13 45 214 | 44 55 21 13</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tai-Kadai</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl66" align="left" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Longyou</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HM ML LM MH H-H MLM</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">445 212 45 13 53 31 | 5 12</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tibeto-Burman_Sinitic_Wu</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Chadong</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">HM ML M-L LM MH H-H</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">53 31 21 23 35 45| 45 21 (short vowel); 31 23 (long vowel)</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tai-Kadai</font></td></tr><tr height="20" style="height:15pt"><td height="20" class="gmail-xl67" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap;height:15pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lakkia-Liula</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ML LH MH MLH LML MHM</font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">453 231<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:normal">ʔ</span><span style="color:windowtext"> 45 214~ 24 221 | 34 45</span><br></font></td><td class="gmail-xl69" style="padding-top:1px;padding-right:1px;padding-left:1px;color:windowtext;vertical-align:bottom;border:none;white-space:nowrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tai-Kadai</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>-Mark</div><div><br></div><div>[1] Note: unlike Larry, I take the Blang 55 51 31 13 system as being H HL ML LM, preferring more phonetic detail. I would not be adverse to 51 and 41 being analysed as HL and ML, for example, but I'm quite happy to lose L as a primitive in the Blang system. As a result, my numbers and Larry's numbers are not directly comparable.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 03:15, Adam James Ross Tallman <<a href="mailto:ajrtallman@utexas.edu">ajrtallman@utexas.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Hey all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">It's been suggested to me that the language I'm working on really makes a distinction between 0 vs. LH lexical marking, rather than 0 vs. H as I had previously thought. Looking at connected speech the evidence for this seems very strong and I'm starting to overcome my initial resilience to the proposal.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Has this been proposed for any other language? (i.e. a language that just has 0, LH or 0, HL and no corresponding lexical Ls and Hs). I want to know what the evidence looks like for other language? In my case it's primarily phonetic and I'm not really sure what strictly phonological evidence would look like.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Notice I'm not asking about pitch accents or intonational marking etc. But cases where it can be shown that the categories are really lexically specified.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Help would be appreciated, I hope everyone is well and healthy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)">Adam</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">PhD, University of Texas at Austin<br></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Investigador del Museo de Etnografía y Folklore, la Paz<br></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>ELDP -- </font>Postdoctorante<br></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font>CNRS -- </font>Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596)</font></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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