Re: [tied] the rhythm and stress in Latin

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:51 AM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] the rhythm and stress in Latin

You speak of Greek _tonal accent_, really, not _stress_. The two phenomena should not be confused. Tone is indeed a moraic phenomenon, and in Greek it is further restricted to vocalic moras (which is a language-specific preference: in Baltic, for example, liquids and nasals may also be tonal), while stress is a property of syllables. 

 

Has the terminology stabilized in that sphere? I've read somewhere that, eg, Greek and Baltic have _pitch accent_ vs. eg. Chinese wich has _tonal accent_ (1. strictly one pitch accent in one phonetic word vs. [generally speaking] more than one tone accent in one word. 2. in tone languages, it's indeed the fundamental frequency that signals, while in pitch languages, the fundamental frequency plays a (secondary) phonetic role, not being an inherent phonological feature (duration, tension or loudness, probably combined, may be utilized as well, and the specific combination depends on subdialectal if not individual moments).

Or what?

 

Sergei