From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:58:18 2010
Subject: Re: TECH: Pitch Accent
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From: cowan
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:49:14 -0500 (EST)
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la .and. cusku di'e

> I'm not sure [pitch accent]'s a good idea though. It's okay for people who are
> happy with stress, since I, at least, hear the accented syllable in
> Japanese and in Serbo-Croat as stressed. But how would a pitch-
> accent lojbanist cope with someone who says selBRIdi amphibrachically
> stresswise, but with hi-lo-hi pitch? There could be all sorts of
> confusion.
> 
> We should be careful to consider things from the hearer's perspective.

Agreed.  I'm prepared to declare the idea dead.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.