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Re:Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in ... by enqk on Friday November 09, 2012 @03:15AM (#4761876)
Also from what I understand, certain homophones are differentiated in practice by differing accenting (raising/lowering) in speech. This is however region specific.
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Re:Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in ... by w1ntermute on Friday November 09, 2012 @11:22AM (#4763467)
This is known as pitch accent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
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