Intonation in African Tone Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation in African Tone Languages write by Laura J. Downing. This book was released on 2016-11-07. Intonation in African Tone Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.
Intonation in African Tone Languages
Intonation in African Tone Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intonation in African Tone Languages write by Laura J. Downing. This book was released on 2017. Intonation in African Tone Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tone
Tone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tone write by Victoria A. Fromkin. This book was released on 2014-05-10. Tone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Phonology of Tone
The Phonology of Tone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phonology of Tone write by Keith Snider. This book was released on 2012-05-07. The Phonology of Tone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody
Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody write by Tomas Riad. This book was released on 2007. Tones and Tunes: Typological studies in word and sentence prosody available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection aims to strengthen the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties of lexical tone and intonation, e.g. of Zina Kotoko (Cameroon), Borgloon Dutch (Belgium), and European Portuguese, while others focus on the historical development of the prosodic systems of Basque, Kagoshima Japanese and Scandinavian. The volume also includes a re-evaluation of a classic paper on the typology of tone rules, and a survey of features signalling question intonation in African languages.
