The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution
Subtitle: A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415941563
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Phonology And Phonetics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; General; Linguistics; Phonetics & Phonics; Literary Collections / General; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general; Phonology; Tone (Phonetics)
First sentence: The term "tone language" usually refers to languages in which the pitch of a syllable serves lexical of grammatical functions.