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- noun linguistics a
process in which alanguage that lackstones gains them
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Now, we're not required to be bound by rules of tonogenesis because a syllable preceding a stressed syllable with falling or high-level pitch might very well develop a rising accent.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Now, we're not required to be bound by rules of tonogenesis because a syllable preceding a stressed syllable with falling or high-level pitch might very well develop a rising accent.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Similar tonogenesis happened in Navajo, a language which derives from Proto-Athabaskan.
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This entry is really just an add-on of my previous rants on tonogenesis which were also generalized in nature.
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