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An excellent question. The labels are phonetically motivated: toneless syllables are generally realised with mid pitch (not low), High syllables have higher pitch than this, and Extra-High higher than High. (Low pitch seems to be involved in phrase-final boundary
marking on toneless syllables.) I haven't carried out a systematic analysis yet, but the Extra-High syllables are realised with an unusually high pitch to my ears, compared with what I'm used to in the area (Raja Ampat, Indonesia). </div>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman">If a language has High tone, Extra-High tone, and No-tone (phonetically Low, I assume), then what would stop us from calling them Mid and High tones instead of High and Extra-High?</span></div>
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<div name="x_messageReplySection">On 27 Jan 2021, 11:06 PM +0800, ARNOLD Laura <Laura.Arnold@ed.ac.uk>, wrote:<br>
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<div>Does anyone know how frequent two-tone inventories contrasting only High and Extra-High are? I’m working with data from a language which has an inventory that can possibly be analysed this way (the two tones also contrast with toneless syllables). I suspect
this is quite an unusual inventory, cross-linguistically – it would be helpful to confirm this. I would also be interested to hear about similar examples elsewhere in the world.</div>
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