[Lingtyp] Tonal inventories: High vs Extra-High

[JOO, Ian [Student]]

Dear Laura,

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?

From Hong Kong,
Ian
On 27 Jan 2021, 11:06 PM +0800, ARNOLD Laura <Laura.Arnold at ed.ac.uk>, wrote:
Dear colleagues,

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.

Many thanks,
Laura

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