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LangTime Chat, Episode 16: Tonogenesis Language Sketch, Part III

Jun 01, 20211 hr 11 minSeason 1Ep. 16
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In this episode, we finally introduce sound changes that incorporate tone into our language sketch! During the episode, we reference an article on tonogenesis by Michaud and Sands, which is attached as a PDF to this post. We hope you enjoy listening!

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Jessie Sams

So we are recording. We are live, welcome to link time chat episode. 1716.

David Peterson

really what which one is it.

Jessie Sams

All of the above. I really thought I was ready, this time.

David Peterson

Okay.

Jessie Sams

But i'm checking now because i'm really curious it's 16 okay.

David Peterson

Okay. So welcome again So why did you lead with 17. that's just not what it was.

Jessie Sams

Because. Sometimes. You are looking forward to the future, and you know, sometimes when you look forward to the future, you. You jump right forward.

David Peterson

yeah I totally. so doing.

Jessie Sams

Well, we are hopefully introducing tone into our language today.

David Peterson

Right, because the whole point was to do a tone language right.

Jessie Sams

Right and every time I think we're going to make it. We don't um, so this is episode what the first the third episode, I will say.

David Peterson

yeah. I almost.

Jessie Sams

said three, but this is the third episode. Where we're working on this language, and of course don't know name, because we literally haven't even made it through all the sound rules and everything. And when I can go ahead and share my screen.

David Peterson

yeah that's probably a good idea, so that people can see what's going on. So this is our third shot at. trying to get tone into this thing.

Jessie Sams

Yes, it is. and Oh good one.

David Peterson

I need to sorry I need to minimize my screen, so that I can actually work on this.

Jessie Sams

Just.

David Peterson

made everything go full screen okay okay there we go i'm all set. Excellent ready so cool.

Jessie Sams

I I am ready. cool um. So let's.

David Peterson

Get back in.

Jessie Sams

I know I know and I almost like I was going to do a review session. But then I was like you know what for people listening along it's been a month, so you need a refresh session too so. We hope. To do some refreshing here. So our current continental inventory. We do the objective series for the voiceless stops, and so we have those we wiped out all of our up lawyers and we do have some Africa what's. At the you know i'll be alert palatable and even vilar Africa what's other than that.

we've been right yeah I know and you weren't super stoked about the the chaos in gc being you. Know phr and I totally.

David Peterson

wasn't yeah I get it to like it's just doesn't make any sense but that's alright it's alright it's fine.

Jessie Sams

But it's there because it's the only onset consonant cluster that's allowed like it. And so, anyway, instead of like trying to write a rule for it, I could it in the IPA chart. And we have a very healthy system of vowels. we've you know.

David Peterson

Had.

Jessie Sams

fun we actually have like an unbounded front valid the MID level so that's exciting. But we of course killed the central bells because.

David Peterson

Because there's. there's no purpose to them and, yes, we do have an. unbounded Val at the MID level but usually that's not usually it's not super exciting because I mean most of the time you expect an unbranded front Pal.

Jessie Sams

And that love oh my gosh around it from hell hole we yeah.

David Peterson

Thank you yeah that's. yeah.

Jessie Sams

That was an unfortunate I almost said typo but. came out of my mouth.

David Peterson

was a speaker Oh, not a typo. In team. Coming out of your paycheck.

Jessie Sams

Speaking of when was the last time you remember to pay me, I mean if i'm going to get a paycheck if you're gonna if you're going to threaten to take it out.

David Peterson

i'm pretty sure I paid you, the last time you earned it.

Jessie Sams

2019. So if you go to page 12 and that's, of course, where I am on the screen share but you're going to need to get there, and your documents you. Excellent this is. This is where we've been working on these forms. And I don't believe yeah so we have seven rules that we have actually created we've applied them to our list of routes that we're moving through. You know, showing how they they evolved and now we need.

To actually incorporate tone and so last time we ended with for suggestions, including losing kowtows specifically stops, which leaves a high tone in its wake. And then another idea is you know same idea but it's a stop koto would leave a high tone, whereas a liquid or nasal kota when it's lost would leave a low tone, but then we also.

had said, maybe that coda would not actually be lost, but it would create a low tone and then objective onset leaves a tonal trace, maybe, but not sure what tone and a mixture of stress and quota loss is the fourth option, so we left it there last time. Are you leaning in any particular direction as we start. here.

David Peterson

i'm leaning against the top option, because we have so few. Stop coda's.

Jessie Sams

Right and then we would like literally only have a couple words with.

David Peterson

Those words. wouldn't make any sense. So. Cheese like. it's actually really tough, I mean maybe this is just not a representative sample.

Jessie Sams

I mean it is. It is just a random list of routes that really my goal in creating them was to make sure we had targeted every sound in the inventory and so. And and tried to like. You know, get some combinations going that could be interesting, so no it's not necessarily.

David Peterson

yeah I did forget, though of course I can. i'm debuting my new glasses. Because I got new glasses and I was doubly supposed to be wearing them because. i'm very tired today, and so I like to wear glasses, to make it like you know cover my eyes a little bit so.

Jessie Sams

and

David Peterson

So we are.

Jessie Sams

Leaving now. I think they look great. Alright, so.

David Peterson

Good choice, what is the Thank you that's what I was hoping for okay. hmm. So.

Jessie Sams

So i'm. going to strike through the top option. Okay, because we considered it. So that is something to think about, by the way, if you are creating a tonal language as you start thinking about where the tones come from. definitely also be thinking about how much of your inventory that would affect, because that would be silly to only have a few words with high tones and nowhere else they need to be you know more distributed. Right. And so.

David Peterson

So. I. yeah Okay, so I see what okay it's. Essentially, the second option is the same as the first only we're having the other code is to do stuff too. Right and. And so i'm thinking that i'm leaning towards the fourth option, because I don't know what dejected should do to tunnel traces to you have any idea.

Jessie Sams

If they love to trace, and this is just like for some reason it's not an actual connection it's just like if they left a trace, it would be a high tone. And it's like I say that as if it's so natural and obvious but I mean there's nothing about it that suggests that it has to be high, it just in my head i'm like ooh objective hi. yeah.

David Peterson

I think that. I think that we're going to have to go to the. What you call it, I think we're gonna have to go to the Internet, to see if there's any association between. watching the call it objectives and tone, because I think that there is, but I don't know what it will be so let's do that also need to give me just one second nobody.

Jessie Sams

Nobody go anywhere.

David Peterson

Nobody looking at my hands.

Jessie Sams

yeah well he's moving around back there I am doing what you do when you need to do research right just start typing in Google. So effective objections. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out. figure out the right search terms um. Oh there's there are. Some good articles on the preceding valuation. But that doesn't help. When we're looking at objectives as onsets. ooh I think I found it, I think. What we need. So there's a whole. Article here on toner genesis so actually I say it right now i'm.

and i'm gonna i'm definitely going to be sharing this. As a PDF attachment whenever I post the podcast because it walks through a lot of different. Languages and things, and this is for actually the Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics and so. And so that's good. So there's Tony genesis by loss of voicing contrast and initial consonants. I lost the final the NGO consonants. salient continental effects on tone is on page 10 I feel like that's going to be my.

David Peterson

This sounds like a really like really useful resource so very, very good fine Thank you.

Jessie Sams

Definitely that's magic of Google, you know. i'm. I OK so. Alright, so there are effects that are referred to as pitch skip and pitch dip for raising and lowering. The the zero format of the bow that follows it. voiced consonants tend to cause lower. performance at the onset of the following valdan unvoiced consonants. And all of our objectives are of course unvoiced so that to me. yeah just that high tone is good.

David Peterson

Globalization would change anything.

Jessie Sams

Justice second. So there's also impulses and so on rents. rise, so the format after an impulsive in a son or it rises and then it falls after an obstacle. In places and objectives involved changes and larynx height and glottal constriction in might therefore be expected to have effects on f0. Variable creek enos.

Raising have a following Val has been noted, to occur with vilar objectives and Hausa voiceless impulses tend to raise the fundamental frequency at the beginning of a following fell slightly more than policed employees, employers do. So that oh wow they're called the presser consonants when they lowered them so that's kind of a cool term to know. And so.

Based on what i'm getting this without having read the entire article just doing my little skipping jump through it, based on what i'm seeing here. I think high tone is the the best bet.

David Peterson

So basically they're not going to do anything different from plain voiceless stops.

Jessie Sams

right balance for me and. I really should have also I realized probably sent this to you because I in my head i'm sharing my screen and so Therefore, you can see everything i'm doing, but my screen that is being shared is of course the pages documents, so that.

David Peterson

yeah I mean you can do a reshare and just. and share the document itself.

Jessie Sams

I sure can. And then, of course, that doesn't help you as much because i'm like literally down on page 11. well. i'm. And so you'll have to let me know if you want me to scroll to other locations in it, but. phonetically it's striking that all the depressed. So. I mean. Let me go back up to the paragraph just a second where this is.

David Peterson

Why did we. goods are they treat it sounds like they're treating objectives and explosives, as the same.

Jessie Sams

It. I was kind of reading at the same after this I honestly don't think objectives get mentioned very much more, because everything really turns to a discussion and my go and download that so don't forget everything really moves on to a discussion on impulses so. So. There this chart It shows. correspondence illustrating the difference between high mark and low Mart languages.

David Peterson

she's look at this like see a proto proto DNA right, you have. chipper jaan and then quick teen and hooper and we literally have three different tones we have low high and mid. Oh, but they're opposite.

Jessie Sams

Right.

David Peterson

got it so weird. There they're opposite high and low and then they both have mid and maybe mid or just no tone in hope hope I might be might just be a language that doesn't have town.

Jessie Sams

In that may. Be it. Oh, it is right above it hope or oba exemplifies the situation of non tonal languages. And so. I mean that, but this is also in objective consonant as a coda. We were looking at them as onsets and so apparent obviously as a cota as a cota if. You go either way.

David Peterson

Obviously, like are you are you seeing this is unbelievable, this is the second time i've heard of this phenomena. they're suggesting that there were two different glottal stops. and i've heard about this before in 10 minutes, where the the person who's done all the work on 10 minutes insists that there are two different glottal stops and that they somehow sound different.

Jessie Sams

You know and i'm you know how how good. I am with being able to distinguish all the finer details of every sound. it's so. yeah it's. That is interesting though that. And in the article it suggests that. lapse into creaky voice for that kind of glottal stop tends to be associated with relaxation and that's the lower pitch. And then the ones that are influence that would have a rising tide, there would be potentially a presence of a falling or breathy tone like an earlier final ah.

So. So there's that i'm going to go to the next match Oh, and then this is the only these are the only other two times objective. continents are specifically mentioned in the article was the paragraph that I had already walked through and then that chart that we just looked at. With those languages.

David Peterson

This data is awful I do have a suggestion, though, so. This is what I think that we should do so okay so looking at the data or like the stuff that we have, I think it should be, just like we'll get. we'll get high tone after voiceless stops whether they're objective or not low tone after voice stops at the beginning for neutral things let's just do.

high tone if they are stressed so we're going to have stressed, low tone if they're not and then we will have an override when we have word final voiceless stops they'll override whatever it is, they will disappear and leave height. That is my recommendation, what do you think.

Jessie Sams

I like it, and I think we need to type it up so that way you know.

David Peterson

We remember them.

Jessie Sams

So i'm going to go back to the pages document. on the screen so. That we can actually type it and I when I mean at this point I would actually we would want it. As one of the number of rules right or do we want to create.

David Peterson

Probably several.

Jessie Sams

Several. Steps of. application.

David Peterson

yeah okay so. How do we know about having yes.

Jessie Sams

Oh, I was gonna say The other thing is like are we, assuming that the Tongue gets applied after the seven or we. Like in terms of the ordering of the rules would they.

David Peterson

I suppose that something that we can consider. yeah that's something that we can talk about. And are we okay with words like sweat are just sweat I guess it would be because we're losing the glottal stop so sweat we okay with that.

Jessie Sams

I mean I am.

David Peterson

I mean, I guess yeah Why did I even ask you.

Jessie Sams

Because you know. You, the ash.

David Peterson

yeah no but I meant more like it's just it's a it's a monosyllabic word that ends in at swell hi TIM.

Jessie Sams

What do you think about it, are you okay.

David Peterson

i'm okay with it slap I mean. I keep saying it's just so funny to me sweat.

Jessie Sams

But that makes it a good word right like the more that you could be excited.

David Peterson

it's like you're so excited about swag you don't say the G.

Jessie Sams

And you put it in a high tone.

David Peterson

it's a it's an abbreviation it's a shortening of swag because swag is too long and got some swear.

Jessie Sams

I think I think that's I think it's perfect.

David Peterson

Okay, very, very, very, very good okay so. All right, let's try to formalize this then. Okay. This is where it's going to be relevant, where this rule is placed, because if we have. If we have voiced consonants leaving a load up hold on, let me go back to our proto forums. We did not have voiced stops. In the parade.

Jessie Sams

Right. Those okay came later.

David Peterson

Okay, so, then that means that we should put these tone rules at the very least after Rule three.

Jessie Sams

Right.

David Peterson

So, then, we have some voice stops. That we are are these crooked.

Jessie Sams

I swear to God, I thought this the first time that I put these on when I was at the at the the the optometry place.

David Peterson

Are they crooked or my glasses crooked.

Jessie Sams

At this very moment no.

David Peterson

Yes, no you're sure.

Jessie Sams

I mean your eyebrows look. Even lead plate well now. Now they look even better. David is doing weird things.

David Peterson

Did you know I can do that, did you know i'm a person that can do that.

Jessie Sams

I did not know that you could do it or do it that well that's actually quite impressive i'm. Just having fun looking at yourself raising your eyebrows. yeah raise.

David Peterson

An eyebrow kid.

Jessie Sams

little bit, and this is this really goes well with with tone.

David Peterson

And you do it, can you do a high tone IRA. A high low melody now like you can't not like you can and, like, I have to think about it, and then I have to like really lower the other I brought like hang on a second hang on a SEC. hang up hang on a second. You. say something again.

Jessie Sams

I am trying to do a podcast here, and you are.

David Peterson

Sorry okay. So. What what had happened was this no I. The pest control company called and it put the ringing into my air pods and it knocked you off of the so for a very, very brief moment but then I guess it doesn't matter because you're recording the audio on your end doesn't it.

Jessie Sams

yeah yeah.

David Peterson

That I shouldn't have said doesn't it there huh. you're recording the audio on your end. aren't you.

Jessie Sams

You are on fire today.

David Peterson

Okay. So guys, we have one of my favorite jokes on the Simpsons confused, would we.

Jessie Sams

So. After Rule three. Minimum lead. That gives us. Post nasal voicing so we have something going on there and post nasal voicing, though, also means that. we're never going to have a coda that is a voice nasal our voice stock which is fine that doesn't mean like if we want voicing to affect that it needs to be forward.

David Peterson

But we could leave that you know if we're. i've just kind of tacitly assume in my head without saying anything out loud and without writing anything in this document that we were doing high low do you want to do high mid low.

Jessie Sams

We actually had already made that decision and we wrote it.

David Peterson

We did. yeah I did.

Jessie Sams

Okay yeah. And i'm going to pull that up to so that way people can see it whenever they're watching the YouTube version, so we have high low and falling rising tones are not permitted.

David Peterson

Okay.

Jessie Sams

So that gives us more things to play with too because. You know, like.

David Peterson

Okay.

Jessie Sams

To get more variety and the tones. So.

David Peterson

Okay, so here here are the thoughts that i'm thinking right at this moment, if we were going to do, the thing that I just thought it didn't say. And how to stress system where it was just a simple stress system where it was like you know penultimate evidence and Val also bit of it ends with a consonant.

And then we were going to say that voice dakota's leave a low tone trace, it would mean that every single word that ended an l or n would end on a falling tone like it would it would just have folly tone they're not me. Okay, and i'm sure if I wanted to. I don't know what your thoughts are.

Jessie Sams

Just depends on how often we would have word final ends and else. Right now.

David Peterson

L and m.

Jessie Sams

Great.

David Peterson

Amazon man see. Archer joke.

Jessie Sams

over my head. Right now, that would be that would be. yeah. That would be four of our current routes.

David Peterson

yeah. yeah.

Jessie Sams

So I mean it's not like it's going to be if.

David Peterson

Okay.

Jessie Sams

Like for me, I would be okay, with it, but.

David Peterson

Okay, if we started counting things, though. yeah if if we started counting things and we started like doing this like. what's the thing.

Jessie Sams

what's a like. It guy like me like really.

David Peterson

The data like tally marks yeah or like. Like tally marks or. You know, like when you're stacking up orphans and you see how, who has the most orphans. That type of a thing, like a like a T chart like. A pro and con list right.

Jessie Sams

Oh okay.

David Peterson

Yes, Sir, and it's like it's like we we just add up how many votes this syllable has for low and how many votes it has for high and it's like if it has more votes for high it's high if it has more votes for low it's low if it's even then it's falling hmm.

Jessie Sams

Okay gotcha yeah.

David Peterson

OK OK.

Jessie Sams

And now I get what you're saying, although stepping up orphans i'm still a little bit lost on.

David Peterson

Okay, so there. that's.

Jessie Sams

that's quite a right, I get what you're saying and i'm on board with that and yeah that would create. A lot of variety and.

David Peterson

Just to just to catch everybody up there is this amazing amazing sketch by the State state is one of my favorite sketch comedy groups of all time and they have this game show sketch, where. it's like they that you come in, after the end of round one, and you know the host is very bubbly and excited and then you see the two contestants who are very disturbed.

And he says, like all right at the end of brown one let's you know check in with Sam and Judy so Sam you have for orphans and Judy is right behind you, with three. And it says um I was given to understand when we signed up for this that we would be winning things like money or prizes it's like it's like no you're. you're playing for orphans it's, like the other woman's because it's like I can't like I don't I don't object to.

You know orphans wanting to be adopted, but it's like I live in a one bedroom studio I can't have three orphans and.

Jessie Sams

Can you have a one bedroom studio isn't a studio by nature zero bedrooms.

David Peterson

Oh you're just really on me right now aren't you Okay, excuse me, I live in a studio loft or something I don't know what the exact job was anyway, so that may go on to like start you know, asking questions. Like. say. Like the final question was like. Like name a type of boat. And soon the guy says. wooden. wooden that's where it is like and how many orphans, are you going to risk. All of them. You. want says, I named my type of boat this blue. And uh.

huh judges, can we accept that it's like a boat both can be blue boats can be blue you when. Wait that's not fair boats can be made out of wood to is hey God good boats boats can be made out of wood. You doubled your orphans. Fantastic sketch anyway so.

Jessie Sams

What are we doing back to town. Oh. yeah. gotcha and. Then we're going going to essentially have several different things that will influence tone, leaving certain tonal traces and we're going to yeah like basically count them up and see what what stacks out on top.

David Peterson

Okay let's do it alright so voiceless see voiceless stop are voiceless anything, because I think voiceless frank, it is are actually depressives aren't they.

Jessie Sams

i'm.

David Peterson

Sorry voiceless frickin is I think frickin have no. No, no. I know the drinking. sodas.

Jessie Sams

yeah. I think frickin lives and stops tend to both be depresses. By. weight that the voiceless voiceless. Is a razor.

David Peterson

OK OK OK OK so got it alright, so let me write this down. voiceless consonants plus one hi. voiced consonants onsets, this is what I should be doing. One sets. Last one low okay so then. Do we want to say that with nasal and liquids too. yeah let's do it let's do it let's let's let's have fun with this let's just go nuts and just do is, we will. Stress. Last one hi.

Jessie Sams

There is actually an interesting paragraph as you're typing. Guy talks about that in most cases they don't actually think it's voice vs voiceless that causes the difference in terms of whether it's an oppressor razor.

That it's more about how its produced and so they're attributing four languages, where it appears that there's a voice consonants do this voiceless consonants do this difference that what's actually happening is differences in sub glottal pressure and longitudinal vocal folds tension. Because the voices consonants have greater attention and that's actually what leaves the higher tongue.

David Peterson

Okay, then.

Jessie Sams

Let us just kind of go.

David Peterson

yeah let's revisit our inventory here. Okay, so we only have voiceless promo consonants so we don't have Z or as we don't have either of those actually even in the modern language.

Jessie Sams

yeah we only have.

David Peterson

We only have voice stops and Africans okay. got it alright alright so then. I guess it's really up to us, then how tense, do you want your SS and ash and do you want them to have the same level of tension or different levels of tension and let's see how we can try to simulate this i'm trying to think of like a really good way to. demonstrate how this might work. So it's like.

Okay, so there's different types of essence right there's like you know there's a typical versus not a typical and then there's that hissy one versus the non hissy one. And then there's for in july's so it's like the most English speakers they didn't have the non typical s so. soda as opposed to soda.

Jessie Sams

Okay.

David Peterson

Did you did I actually do that correctly like did you hear a difference.

Jessie Sams

I think I did, but maybe i'm hearing the difference because I was looking for one.

David Peterson

God I hope so, so I mean no, no, I mean I hope there was a difference, not that you heard something that wasn't there. soda soda.

Jessie Sams

yeah that was yeah.

David Peterson

yeah basically a ton tip is a little bit forward and some languages have that whereas like an English it's more of. Its more just something that certain speakers do, which is just something that I take note of and find interesting. And okay so interesting with my Lingus hat on I hate to admit this, but I do find it a little annoying. I don't know why, and I shouldn't say that it's fine it's fine whatever look my auntie Lisa does it and so like I just always notice it, you know. I love.

I love my auntie Lisa she is a she is a fine. Fine woman, but she will say you know. David to us soda it's just like.

Jessie Sams

And do you decline the the soda because it's not soda.

David Peterson

yeah I mean I I would, but I just decline in any way because seriously who wants to drink something carbonated it's awful. awful experience.

Jessie Sams

i'm.

David Peterson

Like Why would you so okay so, but then there's also like fertilized as like in Arabic and sadiq is i'm sorry I did a little bit off Saudi Saudi. Saudi Saudi Saudi I have a trouble some trouble with that one, but the word for friend in Arabic has a fringe lightest s for ritualized D and then Q so it's a very it's a very difficult word to say for.

Westerners sada sada sada but it's like basically the back of your tongue is right, where the ah sound should be while you're doing the S so saw versus saw saw saw saw saw and I know that it produces a difference in the vowel as well that's. Honestly that's that's the main way I can hear and produce the difference in Arabic was just focusing on the bow. But. I feel like that one has a lot of tension, and so this one would be more. likely to leave a high to trace.

Then. Just regular that feels very lacks to me very loose. and atypical. little bit more tense. So i'd say for ritual or atypical little bit more tense than the than the other, which would be a little bit lacks so I don't know Bearing that in mind what type of S, do you think that we should have for our language.

Jessie Sams

um. I mean. Obviously, since. you're not a fan of the April, we need to do a. I honestly. i'm not feeling a major Opinion one way or the other.

David Peterson

it's too bad. um. let's see.

Jessie Sams

Are you are you leaning one direction.

David Peterson

or tell me about the first time I saw this this commercial with one direction and drew brees. And it was all like a thing about how they were both big and like it was clearly like like these are like two things that are really big from separate you know worlds. And i'm like there's this part where they're like yeah we have one direction i'm like who the hell is that, like because it's like it'd be one thing if it was like you know.

It was like they were being presented as some established super popular thing and I had never heard of them. It was ridiculous it was like if that commercial it happened, two years later I would have accepted it.

Jessie Sams

Instead, not bad.

David Peterson

But not that I was just. Reading.

Jessie Sams

Do you think though it's really just your age group that your age group, not mine. That didn't know them at the time.

David Peterson

yeah that's true as 40 year olds we you know people in their 40s we. Mainly just watch daytime TV and. Talk about the weather and sedans. I mean you, while people in your 30s you just. Listen to. We.

Jessie Sams

wonder ready know about one direction yeah we knew about it, before.

David Peterson

And you're bts and you're 21 pilots and all that.

Jessie Sams

Pilots it's good, though.

David Peterson

Okay, so. No, no. Okay okay there okay so here's what's happened like three separate times and we can actually go into my exam to verify this. I had been tricked in dishes I mean a song on the radio that ends up being by 21 pilots everyone every time i'm like How dare you you got me again it's the same song every time it's like ride or something or something like that. I don't.

Jessie Sams

I don't know I really stressed out and he then are my top two songs I know by them so.

David Peterson

Maybe it may be stressed out.

Jessie Sams

But I do think there is one that's something like car. Something it may be like car right or something.

David Peterson

yeah something like that.

Jessie Sams

But neither here nor there what's. More important. Is.

David Peterson

own thing Okay, so I. Did. The town, I wrote up some rules for the for the tone thing, so I have some potential things there to allow us to tally up. and So what i've got right now is. Wait that's right we didn't okay how about this. sibilant plus one low okay voiceless continents are going to give us plus one high voice consonant these are on sets are gonna give us plus one most sibilant sibilant on sets.

are going to give us plus one low stress is going to give us plus one high unstressed is going to give us plus one low voiceless stop quotas are you going to give us plus one high. And disappear. So that is what i've got at the moment, and the question is, do we want to add anything else to this list.

Jessie Sams

Right, and so we had did we want to specifically have something for objectives, separate from voiceless consonants okay.

David Peterson

No basically that's what we that's what we determined with with all the papers are like nope objectives aren't going to be different they're just going to. You know, leave. You know heighten the, just like the other voiceless consonants so.

Jessie Sams

Right in.

David Peterson

terms of tone like you know top will be the same as apple.

Jessie Sams

And, did you want to do anything with other kowtows.

David Peterson

Oh rate with a stock curtis plus one hi voiced kowtows plus one low.

Jessie Sams

momentarily my. my eyes weren't separating the plus one ah and disappear, and it was just like plus one hand disappear.

David Peterson

ooh. I like that idea here check this out and get a magic trick you ready.

Jessie Sams

Your hand is going to disappear okay.

David Peterson

Watch just just just you know watch this. is right.

Jessie Sams

You do remember that this is actually a podcast.

David Peterson

it's pretty good right.

Jessie Sams

Can you disappearing hand trick, which was actually not even very good won't be seen until later okay okay.

David Peterson

much later we're actually we're nearing the end of season two.

Jessie Sams

Oh yeah that's true.

David Peterson

Yes, and we just put all these up in a badge like like we just do it netflix style. We.

Jessie Sams

make you wait for a long time and then release.

David Peterson

We could do one, at a time.

Jessie Sams

I mean we could. we'd have to remember. Okay, so all of this. sounds. Good sounds good for me i'm. Good where do you want it. To come rule wise.

David Peterson

let's take a look nasal assimilation you've either coloring post nasal voice and it's got to come after that. Either merger. Love Elvis.

Jessie Sams

Honestly, I don't think it matters because five through seven is all about bells. yeah and those aren't going to affect. And then the feeler vilar merger it's still going to be.

David Peterson

Okay.

Jessie Sams

they're not the same tone of rule.

David Peterson

Okay, this is they're not ordered with respect to each other, but I think it should come after the merger.

Jessie Sams

Okay.

David Peterson

Because this is essentially basically what this is saying is like distinctions are collapsing here, and so this is the distinction collapsing phase of this language, or rather the distinctions are being shifted from one area to another, and so that's why I think that it should go there. And maybe the you've either either merger can be what kicks it off that's my thought, what do you think.

Jessie Sams

Right okay all right, I like that.

David Peterson

Okay, so then. let's. Have corresponding fewer consonant buddies that's cute. call this Bruce is going to simplify this and call this tonal genesis. goes to plus stone.

Jessie Sams

So the SP the bell gets tone yes.

David Peterson

voiceless stops collapse into. whistle stops collapse into glottal stops and glottal stops. leave a height. race on the. Val okay.

Jessie Sams

And can you. Can you change that actually though to. voiceless stop coders.

David Peterson

Yes, voiceless. kowtows.

Jessie Sams

Thank you, because we don't want to get rid of. You all. yeah. you're welcome we don't, otherwise we would get rid of all voiceless stops.

David Peterson

Yes, absolutely okay so. leaving a high to trace on the previous fell at this point in time, the phonological system reorganizing itself. And the. And the language becomes. Language becomes fully total Okay, let me think how I wanted to this now, I wanted to next.

Jessie Sams

Did we want to also. Formerly specify. Somewhere that. The stress was. An ultimate if ending in about. ultimate if ending in a.

David Peterson

yeah. We probably should i'll just i'll just. i'll just do that here so i'll make that a part of this. OK, so the old stress system you laughing at me you laughing at me. Or do to you. All right, the old stress system is replace. The old for their system Okay, where. Where was I gonna say. Where okay so. we're ending in quotas for stressed finally. Words in Apps are not coders consonants I mean same thing we're sending and constants are stressed, finally and words ending in our. soul. yeah.

Jessie Sams

Oh, I was just gonna say like whether you would type constants are code is really saying the same thing cuz.

David Peterson

yeah I know.

Jessie Sams

consonants our photos so.

David Peterson

it's really slowly.

Jessie Sams

And she gonna do.

David Peterson

Okay. Okay, so then launch Nina Thank you OK so. The result of this is that. syllables that used to have stress. Now. I won't get it. They are. let's say or gainsaid by. A.

Jessie Sams

game said.

David Peterson

Yes, by depressed or it's a real word. It is 100% a real word.

Jessie Sams

You know I know it's a real life. i'm I know it's a real word I don't think i've ever had somebody just so casually drop it like that.

David Peterson

yeah well get used to it because I dropped game said left and right when it's appropriate and, in this case, yes, unless it's fair game said by a depressed or consonant. voiced consonants on sets leave a low town trace and. As to civil and concepts. Simple and onsets in the voice kowtows. by default.

Jessie Sams

you're typing that and I know you need to like talk through what you're typing Since you know people are hearing this, but just as a really random thing I looked at the origins of gainsay because I was like why. Why does it mean to go like to contradict something if you think about like to gain something that anyway and it's actually because it's from an old. prefix that meant against and it's really like literally where we also have our word against from.

David Peterson

Though it's.

Jessie Sams

like to say something against us and essentially.

David Peterson

So and i'm guessing that the and against probably is the same little prefix that we see in like a go right.

Jessie Sams

You know I would think so, but i'm looking at. Of course I need to look up again, to be able to fight against um you know, actually, it may be different, because this again again comes from the old English on the end and so. I had the oh in.

David Peterson

nope oh not again.

Jessie Sams

But against is from again.

David Peterson

Well then, i've learned something new.

Jessie Sams

It is going ahead with. What I was just gonna say against has the SF verbiage genitive and then the T was probably by association with superlatives as an amongst. That was just that's how we get against a go.

David Peterson

We say towards and forwards and backwards, is that way I have that is because I like to use that all the time, but it's like.

Jessie Sams

I do.

David Peterson

You know not inappropriate, but like.

Jessie Sams

My.

David Peterson

Formal.

Jessie Sams

yeah, so I think it's a British American distinction quite frankly. i'm. A girl is actually just listed. As a go. It doesn't provide any breakdown ahead comes from the a prefix meaning in our APP.

David Peterson

Alright, well, let me, let me see if I can come up with something a little bit better here just a second i'm gonna i'm gonna take a quick little Johnny ski over to which scenario. and see if they got anything else for me. For middle years ago gone from a gone gone to go away to pass prismatic out. And so it comes from woods. And that cave descendants. English. But it says, equivalent to a plus gone and there's that prefix up away all right. Okay, so glad that's settled.

Jessie Sams

And now we can go back to the the gainsaying. Of depressive consonants okay. Yes, and you left off, we have voice continent on sets leave alone on trees, as do civil onsets and voice coda's unstressed syllables take a boat on by default and now you're ready to keep going.

David Peterson

Now I have totally now like, I totally forgotten where I was just completely and totally completely just forgotten exactly okay so i'm going to read this again. where's the stock quotes collapse in a glottal stop suicidal stops leave a high tone trace on the previous bell this point in time, the phonological system reorganize itself the language becomes fully tone old stress system where words in a constant stress violin.

is abandoned the result of this is that syllables that used to have stress, now we get high tone unless they are gainsaid by depressed or consonant. Wisconsin it's onsets leave low tone trays right as to sibilant. onsets invoice kudos. Okay, I think, then, that is. Actually, all we need to say. Okay.

Jessie Sams

Well, not everything, because then you have to mention that, however, you want to word it but. yeah more.

David Peterson

Okay. These um let's see let's call these these tonal influences will fight amongst themselves. War, if you will, for control of the syllable. should be. should be high tone influences went out the soul. soul will have. The the low tone influences when out the syllable will have low. Should there be a tie. No, I want to make this even better, excuse me. Stranger in the event. Of a tie. The syllable will take a falling town.

And then let's say how these things are going to be written in our organization so high tone EG. Good. So we'll have low tone he just that and then following.

Jessie Sams

And so, for the people who can't see EG like that.

David Peterson

Right i'm sorry I keep forgetting that everybody can't see this, I mean they'll eventually be able to see i'm so sorry so. My bad my bad there okay so high tone is going to get an acute accent mark low tone is going to get nothing because it does you know. You should have something so like low tones just get nothing, and then the following tone is going to have a circle FLEX accent over it, and that is how we are going to write the home part of the language okay.

Jessie Sams

and Do you want this or complex, or do you just want the graph because we're not using that for low tone. Or would that be like cognitively confusing.

David Peterson

know that would be very confusing so now there's like no way that we would do that but yeah, thank you for the recommendation I I take our recommendations very seriously from my employees.

Jessie Sams

Your unpaid and please. awesome. wow. Okay, so let's go ahead and like actually walk through and apply these rules to at least a couple i'm looking at the time, I know.

David Peterson

yeah. we're almost coming up.

Jessie Sams

On the end, but like I also just want to leave these kind of somewhere, so we don't have to read a whole paragraph to remind ourselves. So, having it actually written now with the. You know, stressed as this unstressed as that I think will be very helpful. And so we're starting small because we just have. pale.

David Peterson

Okay, so yeah. let's let's go through it let's add it up.

Jessie Sams

we've got a voiceless onset so that's plus one high yep. But we have a. voice kota so that's plus one low. Right and then for one syllable word that has to be that that's where the stresses. That is where the service plus one. plus one hi. and

David Peterson

I think that says that high is the winner is that right. Yes, okay. Very good. Then I guess we're just well we're probably about done with our sound changes I think at this point, so there we go bed bed bed look.

Jessie Sams

like it.

David Peterson

it's, no, no, I think, is. Pam baby.

Jessie Sams

yeah yeah.

David Peterson

It was like it's. it's a word for like a like a rice dish or something. You know what I mean like some sort of savory creamy rice trish yeah.

Jessie Sams

Sure okay so. yeah for the next one. and keep us moving along here, we do have a two syllable word here and but it ends in a consonant and so it's going to be stressed on the final syllables so. unzipped. is going to have that stress so looking at the stress syllable first or do you want to start with the unstressed syllable since its first thing we would type it first.

David Peterson

yeah that's probably a good idea okay let's do that so first syllable we have no onset so nothing happens there. what's next.

Jessie Sams

We have a voice kota so it gets plus one low and it's unstressed, so it is definitely a low.

David Peterson

So yes, and so we oh boy.

Jessie Sams

We have both just do. ash and we're gonna have to type something for that.

David Peterson

yeah i'm just gonna write a little a little bitty note ski here we haven't actually done like an official feminization yet, but I think that should probably be like. yeah no no hold on SEC, that will be that and then this will be this and then. All the.

Jessie Sams

So what he's saying is that the. Roman a yeah and that the ash sound will be in a with an amount over it.

David Peterson

Right and then are you ready for this.

Jessie Sams

i'm really.

David Peterson

I.

Jessie Sams

interested in seeing how you're going to mark tone.

David Peterson

I really don't think that you're ready for this i'm just going to i'm just going to say that, right now, that you are completely and totally. unready for what I am about to do i'm stalling because i'm not finding the thing that I want with it because it. don't. lie to me, I know it's here.

Jessie Sams

Are you trying to find the one where it's the amount and the accent mark together.

David Peterson

it's just. Why are you tired. Like it's supposed to be here in the thing. Not like that, but, like the other one the the one that's more common, the double down is not as common as the double up that I want the double.

Jessie Sams

Oh Oh, I see what you're doing you're extending the two little dot mounts. And you want the devil acute accent mark over the a.

David Peterson

Yes, but I wanted as a prize, you know no I don't get to do that.

Jessie Sams

Also, maybe don't get to actually. put it in there, if you can't find it.

David Peterson

it's ridiculous, this is this is how you write it in Hungarian.

Jessie Sams

You hey oh. I don't know.

David Peterson

Absolutely that's that's how you do it in Hungarian like this should be basic cuz Hungarian is a big language they like gave us most of our monarchs right.

Jessie Sams

what's really interesting is that the devil graph i'm totally listening the double grub is. easily findable. yeah any double acute.

David Peterson

This. Okay, but Dakota now i'm going to go to Wikipedia here we go home going in the language.

Jessie Sams

And as he's searching for this i'm going to keep typing.

David Peterson

Right.

Jessie Sams

And so we've got the ash we've got the end we got the jeezy and then we have the second syllable zero, which of course is the stress syllable so it's got that high tone so there's one for high it's got that voiceless. The voiceless kota the STOP kota so that's another one for high and then it's going to disappear.

David Peterson

And then, my goodness. Of course, oh no.

Jessie Sams

david's gonna cut me off, but it's got a voice onset which is plus one low so we've got to high one low so high still wins out and so that will be a high tone. on them.

David Peterson

But if I can just interrupt you again, please, so the APP like. there's no front Val in Hungarian there's no a with a new loud and Hungarian it's just a UN UN Oh, with an oem loud So those are the ones that have the double acute not the art and that was totally my bad I am so sorry Hungarian speakers I do that they're. Okay, and now i'm just questioning.

Everything think was you're just going to have to use ash, because there is an ash with an acute accent now it's just a question of if there's, one that has a complex accent. there's that.

Jessie Sams

Well, I mean we can make it half one. Ah.

David Peterson

This is terrible.

Jessie Sams

Why don't you can just use like the IPA keyboard and give it one give it a little hat.

David Peterson

it's better if it has its own unicode spot then it's more likely to render correctly. it's you know what i'm saying. I need a critical marks okay well that's fine all right it's fine it's fine it's fine okay it's fine. This is silly this doesn't matter all right, but okay so yeah and Z OK.

Jessie Sams

and Now we're ready for the. yeah we're ready for the next word and you're going to say it.

David Peterson

Okay, so stressed high tone, which is a high tone and which is a low tone high tone wins and so Oh well, now we can do it. And we are back in the good graces of Hungarian speakers everywhere, because today. Good in.

Jessie Sams

That way.

David Peterson

And with that, I think that we are done.

Jessie Sams

love it. Excellent so yeah so we're finally applying tone and we can pick up here and remind ourselves how to read you know, apply the tone to finish these out and we can focus in the next episode, I think it would be a good time to focus on romanization. And you know strategies there of because I know a lot of people have asked questions about romanization, and so I feel like that. could be fun for us to focus an episode on that.

David Peterson

yeah I mean shouldn't take a whole episode right, I mean.

Jessie Sams

No, no, but I mean there's so many more things that we can do. To you know continue in the language, so I know, and I know that there are definitely patrons interested in. really talking through a lot more verbs and what verbs can do so i'm excited to I know it's your favorite i'm i'm excited to like kind of settle into that too, and have some episodes where we can discuss all the fun things that verbs can do.

David Peterson

yep alright cool Well then, I guess, everybody, thank you for listening, since you were listening and not watching. As I remember. As I always remember as I always keep in mind and yeah so, then I don't know stay.

Jessie Sams

Like a grammar.

David Peterson

yeah there we go.

Jessie Sams

ready until next time bye no USA by two.

David Peterson

yeah there we go bye everybody.

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