The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution : A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis
by
Jie Zhang
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
ISBN-10
0415941563
ISBN-13
9780415941563
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 2nd, 2002
Print length
294 Pages
Weight
486 grams
Product Classification:
Phonetics, phonology
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This book presents a detailed and enlightening examination of the effects of duration and sonority on the patterns of positional restriction of contour tones.
First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The term tone language usually refers to languages in which the pitch of a syllable serves lexical or grammatical functions. In some tone languages, the contrastive functions of pitch are sometimes played by pitch changes within a syllable. Pitch changes of this kind are called contour tones. The distribution of contour tones in a language, are when under what phonological contexts contour tones are more readily realized.
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