Original sentence: Most other dialects have only three tones, high, low and ascending.Stress is not phonemic but rather falls predictably on every other syllable.Voigtlander and Echegoyen analyze the Otomi de la Sierra dialect as having four tones: high level, low level, falling, and rising
Edited sentence: Doris Bartholomew, Eunice Pike and Richard Blight preferred an analysis including three tones, but other scholars including Maurice Swadesh and H.In the 1960'es and 70'es the analysis of tones in Otomi where the subject of discussion among linguists.Most Otomi varieties have three tones: high, low and rising.Russel Bernard preferred an analysis with only two tones, where the rising tone was analysed as a two consecutive tones on one long vowel.Stress in Otomi is not phonemic but rather falls predictably on every other syllable, the first syllable of a root always being stressed.The three tone analysis became the standard analysis in Otomi phonetics.Voigtlander and Echegoyen (1985) analyzed the Otomi de la Sierra dialect as having four tones: high level, low level, falling, and rising