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Hello, Another aspect of the question is, if a language has a word for 'pitch', how likely is a linguist to identify it in the course of language documentation/description?</div>
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In Dalabon (Australia) I have encountered instances of the word for '(crown of) head' (<i>kodj-no</i>) that I could never fully make sense of. So far my best hypothesis is that they would translate as 'pitch', but I never got a chance to get to the bottom of
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Hello everyone,</div>
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I'm wondering how many languages across the world have a word for "pitch". In a meeting the Chacobo once offered a novel word which roughly translated to 'speech's song', joi᷄ quëquëti᷄ but it likely wouldn't be understood without explanation(as far as I know!)
and it's obviously not lexicalized.</div>
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I'm wondering what cultures/languages have lexicalized this notion?</div>
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best,</div>
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p.s. You probably don't have to respond to this if you are going to tell me that some Standard-Average-European language (for example) has a lexicalized word for pitch. Unless you can tell me something about how the notion may have arisen historically.<br>
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