You don&#x27;t think there are differences in tone between many homonyms in English? No, it&#x27;s not a &quot;tonal&quot; language, but that absolutely doesn&#x27;t mean they don&#x27;t exist, or aren&#x27;t widely used.<p>Or is your assertion that &quot;Buffalo buffalo...&quot; is pronounced by repeating the <i>exact same pattern of sound</i> eight times?