The Phonology of Tone
Subtitle: The Representation of Tonal Register (Linguistic Models, No 17)
Contributors: Keith Snider (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: June 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9783110136050
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Prosodic analysis (Linguistics); Phonology And Phonetics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Register (Linguistics); Phonetics & Phonics; Prosodic analysis (Linguistics; Tone (Phonetics)
First sentence: Given that the majority of the world's languages is tonal, it is incumbent upon phonologists to strive towards the development of phonological theories which provide an adequate formal account of tonal phenomena.