Sorry, I didn't write precisely and didn't mean to imply that Chinese didn't have similar sorts of stress/tone things as English. Definitely, both languages imply a lot based on how you speak a word. I really just meant to compare the relatively easy business of tones-as-pronunciation, as Mandarin has, with the much more difficult and complicated business of tones-as-extra-implications, which Mandarin, English, and probably every other language has.