Abstract

Villa Alta Zapotec has three tone registers: high /1/, mid /2/, low /3/. These are demonstrated by CONTRASTIVE SETS. (A CONTRASTIVE SET may be defined as a group of tonesequence patterns, in some particular position, which differ only by one tone in the same relative place in the sequence; the segmental phonemes of a contrastive set do not have to be uniform.) Note the following contrastive sets, the first of which differ by slight segmental changes which are not pertinent to the tone contrast:3 de3zaln yal a lot of bamboo: de3zaln

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