Phonological Tone

Author : Lian-Hee Wee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107125723
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phonological Tone written by Lian-Hee Wee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the concept of tone, its physical properties and intricate patterning in phonology, to unravel key 'mysteries' that have been subject to great debate in the field.

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521012003
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phonology of Tone and Intonation written by Carlos Gussenhoven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483273768
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tone written by Victoria A. Fromkin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tone: A Linguistic Survey is a nine-chapter text that considers the phonetics and phonology of tone from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. The first chapters deal with the physiological and perceptual correlations of tone. These chapters also describe the interactions of tonal and nontonal features. The succeeding chapters provide the phonetic basis for phonological tonal phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the physical and physiological aspects of tone, the number of possible contrastive tones in a language, and a suprasegmental representation of tones based on linguistic evidence. This text also summarizes the kinds of tone rules found in languages and the important syntactic function played by tone in a number of the world’s languages, particularly those in Africa. The final chapters look into the general and specific principles that constrain historical tone change. This book will prove useful to students with phonology course.

Author : Paul de Lacy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462059
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology written by Paul de Lacy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of human language. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. Providing a one-stop guide to every aspect of this important field, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology will serve as an invaluable source of readings for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, an informative overview for linguists and a useful starting point for anyone beginning phonological research.

Author : Alexis Michaud
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3946234860
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tone in Yongning~Na written by Alexis Michaud and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of Yongning Na; they are not the product of a small set of phonological rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been reported in this area of Sino-Tibetan, but book-length descriptions remain few. This study of an endangered language contributes to a better understanding of the diversity of prosodic systems in East Asia. The analysis is based on original fieldwork data (made available online), collected over the course of ten years, commencing in 2006.

Author : Douglas Pulleyblank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400945507
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tone in Lexical Phonology written by Douglas Pulleyblank and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revised version of my Ph.D. dissertation that was submitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Although much of the analysis and argumentation of the dissertation has survived rewriting, the organization has been considerably changed. To Paul Kiparsky and Morris Halle, lowe a major debt. Not only has it been a great privilege to work on phonology with both of them, but it is hard to imagine what this piece of research would have looked like without them. (They, of course, may well imagine a number of appropriate ways in which the work could be different had I not been involved .... ) In addition, special thanks are due to Ken Hale, the third member of my thesis committee. Our discussions of a variety of topics (including tone) helped me to keep a broader outlook on language than might have otherwise been the result of concentrating on a thesis topic.

Author : John A. Goldsmith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110246228
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tones and Features written by John A. Goldsmith and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Author : Keith Snider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110869373
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phonology of Tone written by Keith Snider and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lian-Hee Wee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009078061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complexity in the Phonology of Tone written by Lian-Hee Wee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological patterning that unveils structures beyond differences in pitch heights and contour profiles. Following an introduction on tone's ability to express lexical and grammatical contrasts, Section 2 explains that phonetically, fundamental frequency profiles make for the best descriptors. From these descriptions, Section 3 explains how, through postulations of subatomic entities that comprise tones, a language's tone inventory can be quite symmetrical. In looking at tone's independence from the syllable and segments, Section 4 establishes tone as an autosegment. Sections 5, 6, and 7 go on to discuss a myriad of complexities where tones interact with one another and with other phonological entities. Here, the authors offer a suggestion on how some of these interactions can be captured within the same analytical umbrella. Section 8 then peeks into tone's phonological properties through music and poetry.

Author : Enrique L. Palancar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110452758
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tone and Inflection written by Enrique L. Palancar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar. This volume aims to broaden our understanding of the link between tone and inflection by showing that there is more to tone than meets the eye. The book includes general chapters as well as case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a special focus on the Oto-Manguean languages, a large and diverse linguistic stock of Mexico that inspired Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal work on tone. Most of the contributions to this volume provide first-hand data from recent fieldwork that stems from important language documentation activities.