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Comment author: komponisto2 18 July 2008 02:36:47AM 1 point [-]

Douglas Knight:

I've heard that isn't true in tonal languages

Where did you hear that?

It's false. "Tone" as a lexical property of words (as in "tonal languages") is a specific technical concept that is not to be confused with "intonation", which is an essentially universal phenomenon of human speech.