[PDF] The Structure Of Tone eBook

Author : Zhiming Bao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1999-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195353323

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This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone languages, providing empirical support for his proposal that tone is a formal entity which consists of register and contour. Bao establishes a clear typological distinction between register tone languages and contour tone languages whose contour tones have a more complex structure.

Author : Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1483273768

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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 : Caroline Féry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107008069

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This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosody from a phonological perspective, for advanced students and researchers in phonology.

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521012003

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Author : Mary Pearce
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2013
Category : African languages
ISBN : 9781575866086

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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University College, London, 2007.

Author : Janet Breckenridge Pierrehumbert
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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"Japanese Tone Structure" provides a thorough, phonetically grounded description of accent and intonation in Tokyo Japanese and uses it to develop an explicit account of surface phonological representation. The unusual amount of quantitative phonetic data analyzed and its testing in a detailed model make this an important new study for theoretical phonologists, phoneticians, and specialists in Japanese.The authors' broader purpose, however, is to develop a general theory of surface representation that can capture salient facts about prosodic structure in all languages and provide a suitable input to phonetic rules. The theory integrates autosegmental principles into a metrical account of prosodic structures in an explicit formalism. The work establishes phonology and phonetics as a productive area in cognitive science.Janet B. Pierrehumbert is a member of the technical staff in the Department of Artificial Intelligence Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mary E. Beckman is an Assistant Professor in the Department. of Linguistics at Ohio State University. "Japanese Tone Structure" is a Linguistic Inquiry Monograph.

Author : Paul de Lacy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139462059

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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 : Lian-Hee Wee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107125723

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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 : Wolfgang Kehrein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110377497

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This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The contributions address, among other things, the following basic questions: what tone-segment interactions exist, and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony and synchrony in relevant processes? The contributions discuss data from various types of languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role, from ‘pure’ tone languages to so-called tone accent systems, where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian dialects in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also discusses languages as diverse as Slovenian, Livonian, Fuzhou Chinese, and Xhosa.

Author : Peter Stockwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139916343

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Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory. Placing stylistics in its intellectual and international context, each chapter includes a detailed illustrative example and case study of stylistic practice, with arguments and methods open to examination, replication and constructive critical discussion. As an accessible guide to the theory and practice of stylistics, it will equip the reader with a clear understanding of the ethos and principles of the discipline, as well as with the capacity and confidence to engage in stylistic analysis.