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| Author | : Lian-Hee Wee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2019-02-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107125723 |
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.
| Author | : Lian-Hee Wee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2019-02-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108636616 |
From the physiology and acoustics to their patterning across human languages, tone is one of the fundamental constructs in human languages that is also among the hardest to apprehend. Drawing upon a large number of languages around the world, this volume explores the concept of tone starting from its physical properties of articulation and acoustics to its manifestation in phonology. Designed as a comprehensive study accessible to the novice and useful for the expert, each chapter covers a particular aspect of tone in increasing depth and complexity, weaving together key concepts and theories that provide complementing or competing accounts of tone's phonological intricacies. In the process, one uncovers the underlying laws and principles that inform today's understanding of the subject to form a more synthesized view that also allows us to explore the relation of tone to other important areas of humanity such as literature, history, music and cognition.
| Author | : Victoria A. Fromkin |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2014-05-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1483273768 |
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 | : Carlos Gussenhoven |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2004-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521012003 |
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| Author | : Paul de Lacy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 2007-02-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139462059 |
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 | : Moira Yip |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2002-08-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139433423 |
The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones - the use of pitch to convey word meaning. Seventy percent of the world's languages use pitch in this way. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the topic, this textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology. Comprehensive in scope, it examines the main types of tonal systems found in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, using examples from the widest possible range of tone languages. It provides students with a basic grasp of the simple phonetics of tone, and covers key topics such as the distinctive feature systems suitable for tonal contrasts, allophonic and morphophonological tonal alterations, and how to analyze them within Optimality Theory. The book also examines the perception and acquisition of tone, as well as the interface between tonal phonology and the morphosyntax.
| Author | : Carlos Gussenhoven |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 957 |
| Release | : 2021-01-07 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0198832230 |
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
| Author | : Douglas Pulleyblank |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9400945507 |
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 | : Lian-Hee Wee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2023-07-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009085263 |
The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological patterning that unveils structures beyond differences in pitch heights and contour profiles. Following an introduction on tone's ability to express lexical and grammatical contrasts, Section 2 explains that phonetically, fundamental frequency profiles make for the best descriptors. From these descriptions, Section 3 explains how, through postulations of subatomic entities that comprise tones, a language's tone inventory can be quite symmetrical. In looking at tone's independence from the syllable and segments, Section 4 establishes tone as an autosegment. Sections 5, 6, and 7 go on to discuss a myriad of complexities where tones interact with one another and with other phonological entities. Here, the authors offer a suggestion on how some of these interactions can be captured within the same analytical umbrella. Section 8 then peeks into tone's phonological properties through music and poetry.
