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The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution: A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution: A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

Zhang, Jie

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Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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ISBN10: 0415941563
ISBN13: 9780415941563
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 2 2002
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.74 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
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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