Tone In Lexical Phonology

Author : Douglas Pulleyblank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400945500

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Tone in Lexical Phonology by Douglas Pulleyblank Pdf

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 : Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483273761

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Tone by Victoria A. Fromkin Pdf

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 : Alexis Michaud
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234869

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Tone in Yongning~Na by Alexis Michaud Pdf

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 : Carlos Gussenhoven,Tomas Riad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110207576

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Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody by Carlos Gussenhoven,Tomas Riad Pdf

This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.

Author : Keith Snider,Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110869378

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The Phonology of Tone by Keith Snider,Harry van der Hulst Pdf

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521012007

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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation by Carlos Gussenhoven Pdf

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Author : Sharon Hargus,Ellen M. Kaisse
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483296173

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Studies in Lexical Phonology by Sharon Hargus,Ellen M. Kaisse Pdf

Studies in Lexical Phonology

Author : Keith Snider
Publisher : SIL International
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781556714320

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Tone Analysis for Field Linguists by Keith Snider Pdf

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features: • Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists • Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive tones of tone-bearing units • Focuses on keeping constant all factors that can potentially affect tone, so that utterances being compared are truly comparable • Includes a chapter on the phonetic properties of pitch • Presents principles for developing orthographies for tone languages • Includes comprehensive accompanying online exercises* that guide students from beginning to end through a complete analysis of nominal tone in a single language, Chumburung. Assuming little prior knowledge of tone or tone languages, Tone Analysis for Field Linguists is readily accessible to students and field workers alike who have previously taken introductory courses in articulatory phonetics, phonology, and morphology and syntax. *Instructors may access the accompanying online exercises. Register here: https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/toneanalysis_teachermaterials

Author : Naima Kassim
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3659244066

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A Study of Tone in Lexical Phonology by Naima Kassim Pdf

Is Lexical Phonology a universal theory of grammar and do all its tenets apply uniformly in all languages? Exposing the Lwidakho tone to both autosegmental and lexical phonological scrutiny presents interesting nuances which have the ability of arousing questions on what truly are the qualities of a universal theory and what makes linguists conclude that a theory or rule applies universally. It is possible that some languages fail to elicit characteristics that qualify a universal theory, hence nurturing the increasing interest in linguists to study and test theories that have been proclaimed universal. A study of Lwidakho Tone in Lexical Phonology is such an attempt. The study describes how the tenets of lexical phonology apply in the Lwidakho autosegmental data and goes ahead to assess the language vis-a-vis the principals in the two theories.

Author : Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110450361

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Tone and Inflection by Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard Pdf

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.

Author : Sharon Hargus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429848261

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The Lexical Phonology of Sekani by Sharon Hargus Pdf

First published in 1988. This title explores the phonology of Sekani, a northern Athabaskan language, within the framework of Lexical Phonology. After providing an overview of the language of Sekani and the theory of Lexical Phonology, the author goes on to explore various issues in the application of this theory. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

Author : Sylvia Henel Sun
Publisher : Technical Report
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004289798

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The Development of a Lexical Tone Phonology in American Adult Learners of Standard Mandarin Chinese by Sylvia Henel Sun Pdf

The study reported in this volume is based on three decades of research on the SLA of Mandarin tone. It investigates whether differences in learners' tone perception and production are related to differences in the effects of certain linguistic, task and learner factors.

Author : Paul de Lacy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139462051

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The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology by Paul de Lacy Pdf

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 : Keith L. Snider
Publisher : Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Tone
ISBN : UCSC:32106015514968

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The Geometry and Features of Tone by Keith L. Snider Pdf

Presents a model for the phonological representation of tone: what features are involved, how they relate to tone-bearing units and how they interact with one another.

Author : Lian-Hee Wee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107125728

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Phonological Tone by Lian-Hee Wee Pdf

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.