Tone

ISBN-13: 9780521773140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 376 str.

Moira Yip

Opis

The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones--the use of pitch to convey 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.

Recenzje

'… a welcome addition to the line-up of the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics … a gem of a textbook …'. Journal of Phonology

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Contrastive tone; 3. Tonal features; 4. The autosegmental nature of tone, and its analysis in Optimality Theory; 5. Tone in morphology and in syntax; 6. African languages; 7. Asian and Pacific languages; 8. The Americas; 9. Tone, stress, accent and intonation; 10. Perception and acquisition of tone.