Structure of Tone

Zusatztext Finally a book all about tone!...Bao's survey of the development of tone theory is excellent, and is an excellent educational resource on the topic...This book could be a stepping stone to further developments for a tonal theory that is truly universal. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Bao presents a theory of tone which supports the typological distinction between African-type tone languages and Asian-type tone languages. He argues for a novel structure of tone! and supports it with data from Chinese dialects and other Asian languages. It will be of interest to phonologists and linguists interested in Chinese.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Zhiming Bao, Zhiming (Senior Lecturer Bao, Bao Zhiming
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.12.1998
• EAN: 9780195118803
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511880-3
• Pages: 264
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; Chinese, Phonetics, phonology, African Languages, Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages, Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages