| Lemma | pitch |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | pitch accent (inglese) |
| Rinvii | consonantal change (inglese) grammatical process (inglese) language (inglese) modification (inglese) radical element (inglese) stress (inglese) vocalic change (inglese) word (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] the pitch differences [...] may not affect the word as such, but [...] may be a more or less random or, at best, but a rethorical phenomenon, while in other languages [...] may be more finely graduated and felt as integral characteristics of the words themselves. Pitch accent may be as functional as stress and its perhaps more often so. The mere fact [...] that pitch variations are phonetically essential to the language, as in Chinese [...] does not necessarily constitute a functional, or perhaps we had better say grammatical, use of pitch. In aboriginal America [...] pitch accent is known to occur as a grammatical process. A good example of such a pitch language is Tlingit [...] In this language many verbs vary the tone of the radical element according to tense [...] [...] pitch accent, like stress and vocalic or consonantal modifications, is far less infrequently employed as a grammatical process than our own habits of speech would prepare us to believe probable. |