Tone
A Linguistic Survey
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1978
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Victoria A. Fromkin
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 3 7 6 - 1
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTone: 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.
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
I Production of Tone
1. Introduction
2. Review of Laryngeal Anatomy and Physiology
3. Brief History of Research on Pitch Regulation
4. Recent Issues in Laryngeal Physiology
5. First Steps Toward Explaining Universal Tone Patterns
References
II The Perception of Tone
1. Introduction
2. Acoustic Correlates of Tone
3. Perceptual Effects of Tone Sandhi
4. Differential Threshold for Pitch
5. Categorical Perception of Tone
6. Hemispheric Specialization for Tonal Processing
7. Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Tone Perception
8. Concluding Remarks
References
III Consonant Types, Vowel Quality, and Tone
1. Introduction
2. Effect of Consonant Types on Tone
3. Effect of Tone on Consonants
4. Effects of Vowel Quality on Tone
5. Other Types of Tone Changes
References
IV What Is a Tone Language?
1. Standard Japanese
2. Mandarin Chinese
3. Enlarging the Typology
4. A Postscript on Syllables and Moras
References
V Tone Features
1. Introduction
2. Tone Levels
3. Tonal Contours
4. Feature Systems for Tonal Analysis
References
VI The Representation of Tone
1. Introduction
2. Etsako
3. Mende
4. Hausa
References
VII Tone Rules
1. The Formalization of Tone Rules
2. Interaction of Tones and Segments
3. Rules Which Determine the Domain of a Tone
4. Rules Which Operate within a Given Segmental Domain
5. Tone and Intonation
6. Paradigmatic Replacement of Tones
7. Grammatical Tone and Grammaticalized Tone Rules
References
VIII Historical Tonology
1. Introduction
2. General Principles
3. Tonally Induced Change
4. Accentually Induced Change
5. Boundary-Induced Change
6. Segmentally Induced Change
7. Conclusion
References
IX The Acquisition of Tone
1. Introduction
2. The Questions
3. The Data
4. Discussion
5. Directions for Further Research
References
Language Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1978
- No. of pages (eBook): 304
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9781483273761
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