Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415967624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 194 str.

Andrea Hoa Pham

Opis

In linguistic study, tone is usually equated with pitch. This text argues that this view of tone is problematic. Its acoustic analysis of tone in Vietnamese uses data from various speakers to show that the phonation features of breathiness and creakiness correlate much more closely with tonal perceptions than pitch height alone.

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Phonological Issues 3 The Tonal Inventory 4 The Acoustics of Tone 5 The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone 6 The Domain of Tone 7 Conclusion References Index

O autorze

Andrea Hoa Pham is Assistant Professor of Vietnamese in the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida. She has published papers on various aspects of Vietnamese, from phonetics and phonology to gender systems. She is the author of a collection of Vietnamese poetry.