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Journal articles on the topic "Phonology; Tone languages"

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Zhang, Hang. "Dissimilation in the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones." Second Language Research 32, no. 3 (2016): 427–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658316644293.

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This article extends Optimality Theoretic studies to the research on second language tone phonology. Specifically, this work analyses the acquisition of identical tone sequences in Mandarin Chinese by adult speakers of three non-tonal languages: English, Japanese and Korean. This study finds that the learners prefer not to use identical lexical tones on adjacent syllables, especially the contour tone sequences. It is argued that the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) was playing a role in shaping the second language Chinese tonal phonology even though it was not learned from these speakers’ na

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Schuh, Russell G. "Aspects of Avatime phonology." Studies in African Linguistics 24, no. 1 (1995): 32–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v24i1.107410.

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Avatime is one of 14 Central-Togo languages (formerly known as "Togo Remnant Languages") spoken in the Volta Region of Ghana and contiguous areas of Togo. The most striking typological feature of these languages compared to their closest Kwa relatives is the fact that they have active noun class systems. The present paper is a description of Avatime phonology, with emphasis on certain features which have been poorly described and/or are of general linguistic interest. Within the consonant system, Avatime has bilabial fricatives and a full series of labiovelar obstruents, including fricatives.

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Lee, Jackson L. "The Representation of Contour Tones in Cantonese." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 38 (September 25, 2012): 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v38i0.3335.

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<p>A central question in tonal phonology is the representation of tone. One of the focal points is the representation of contour tones, especially since Goldsmith (1976) and subsequent works have analyzed contour tones in Bantu languages as sequences of level tones. Cross-linguistically, it is generally well-recognized, following Yip’s (1989) terminology, that contour tones in African languages are typically clusters, which are sequences of level tones and consist of multiple tonal root nodes, and that contour tones in Asian languages are typically tone units, which have only one tonal r

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Gut, Ulrike. "Nigerian English prosody." English World-Wide 26, no. 2 (2005): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.26.2.03gut.

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Nigerian English (NigE) prosody has often been described as strikingly different from Standard English varieties such as British English (BrE) and American English. One possible source for this is the influence of the indigenous tone languages of Nigeria on NigE. This paper investigates the effects of the language contact between the structurally diverse prosodic systems of English and the three major Nigerian languages. Reading passage style and semi-spontaneous speech by speakers of NigE, BrE, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba were analysed acoustically in terms of speech rhythm, syllable structure and

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So, Lydia K. H., and Barbara J. Dodd. "The acquisition of phonology by Cantonese-speaking children." Journal of Child Language 22, no. 3 (1995): 473–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900009922.

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ABSTRACTLittle is known about the acquisition of phonology by children learning Cantonese as their first language. This paper describes the phoneme repertoires and phonological error patterns used by 268 Cantonese-speaking children aged 2;0 to 6;0, as well as a longitudinal study of tone acquisition by four children aged 1;2 to 2;0. Children had mastered the contrastive use of tones and vowels by two years. While the order of acquisition of consonants was similar to that reported for English, the rate of acquisition was more rapid. The developmental error patterns used by more than 10% of chil

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Roberts, David, and Stephen L. Walter. "Writing grammar rather than tone." Units of Language – Units of Writing 15, no. 2 (2012): 226–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.15.2.06rob.

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Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a ‘third way’: to highlight the grammar rather than the tone system itself. To test this approach, we developed two experimental strategies for Kabiye: a grammar orthography and a tone orthography. Both are modifications of the standard orthography that does not mark tone. We tested these in a quantitative experiment involving literate L1 s

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Jacques, Guillaume, and Alexis Michaud. "Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages." Diachronica 28, no. 4 (2011): 468–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.28.4.02jac.

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Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phonological correspondences between these three languages should be interpreted, and what phonological structure should be reconstructed for Proto-Naish.

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Zwicky, Arnold M., Ellen M. Kaisse, Larry M. Hyman, Francis Katamba, and Livingstone Walusimbi. "Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis." Phonology Yearbook 4, no. 1 (1987): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0952675700000786.

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The ability of a language's syntax to determine the applicationvs. non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word level, have come especially from the prosodic aspects of phonological structure, e.g. effects of syllabification, stress-accent, duration and tone. Much of the interest in this syntax-phonology interaction has centred around two general questions: (i) which specific properties of the syntax are available to affect the application of phonological rules?; (ii) how should these synta

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Odden, David. "Tone in the Makonde dialects Chimaraba." Studies in African Linguistics 21, no. 1 (1990): 62–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v21i1.107439.

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This study presents data and an analysis of tone in the Chimaraba dialects of Makonde. It is shown that, as in many Bantu languages of Southern Tanzanian, verbs in Makonde have no lexical tone properties. Verb stems all select a single H tone, which is then mapped to some stem vowel, or is deleted, depending on the tense of the verb. Theoretical issues arise in the course of the investigation. The question of adjacency constraints in phonology is raised: Meeussen's Rule in Makonde requires that the involved tones be in adjacent syllables, although they need not be on adjacent morae. We also fi

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Bird, Steven. "Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems." Written Language and Literacy 2, no. 1 (1999): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.2.1.02bir.

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Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking). Another approach is to do phonemic tone analysis, and then make heavy use of diacritic symbols to distinguish the "tonemes" (shallow marking). While orthographies based on either system have been successful, this may be thanks to our ability to manage inadequate orthographies, rather than to any intrinsic advantage which is afforded by one or the other approach. In many cases, practical experience with both kinds

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Phonology; Tone languages"

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Purnell, Thomas Clark. "Principles and parameters of phonological rules evidence from tone languages /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1997. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9831516.

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Zhou, Jin. "A study of speech errors in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295974.

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Carter-Enyi, Aaron. "Contour Levels: An Abstraction of Pitch Space based on African Tone Systems." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461029477.

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Ao, Benjamin Xiaoping. "Phonetics and phonology of Nantong Chinese." Connect to this title online, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1105384417.

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Myrberg, Sara. "The Intonational Phonology of Stockholm Swedish." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38697.

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This thesis develops the phonological model for the Stockholm Swedish intonation system. Though previous research provides a general model of this system, many phonological aspects of it have remained understudied. The intonational options that are available to speakers of Stockholm Swedish are discussed, and it is argued that Stockholm Swedish provides evidence for complex branching of phonological domains. Specifically, it is argued that so called focal accents, which are referred to as (H)LH-accents in the present work, have essentially two different functions. First, they signal informatio

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Kortum, Richard D. "Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://amzn.com/1349442593.

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In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1108/thumbnail.jpg

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Xu, Lei. "Phonological variation and word recognition in continuous speech." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1190048116.

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Kwok, Chui-ling Irene, and 郭翠玲. "Electropalatographic investigation of normal Cantonese speech: a qualitative and quantitative analysis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38626135.

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Leitch, Myles Francis. "Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin : an optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6658.

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A central claim of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993a) is that phonological variation can be modeled through the variable ranking of universal constraints. In this thesis, I test this claim by examining variation in the tongue root vowel harmony system in a number of closely related yet distinct Bantu languages of Congo and Zaire. The twenty-odd languages are drawn from each of Guthrie 1967's eight Bantu C. subgroups and are shown to vary along a number of dimensions. One is morphological, related to whether or not the harmonic element in the lexical

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Schwanhäuβer, Barbara, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and MARCS Auditory Laboratories. "Lexical tone perception and production : the role of language and musical background." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/31791.

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This thesis is concerned with the perception and production of lexical tone. In the first experiment, categorical perception of asymmetric synthetic tone continua was examined in speakers of tonal (Thai, Mandarin, and Vietnamese) and non-tonal (Australian English) languages. It was observed that perceptual strategies for categorisation depend on language background. Specifically, Mandarin and Vietnamese listeners tended to use the central tone to divide the continuum, whereas Thai and Australian English listeners used a flat no-contour tone as a perceptual anchor; a split based not on tonal vs

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Books on the topic "Phonology; Tone languages"

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Tone in lexical phonology. D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1986.

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Devonish, Hubert. Talking in tones: A study of tone in Afro-European Creole languages. Caribbean Academic Publications, 1989.

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Tibeto-Burman tonology: A comparative account. J.Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.

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Dai yu de sheng diao ge ju he yuan yin ge ju. Sichuan da xue chu ban she, 2007.

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Shi san shi ji Dai Tai yu yan de yu yin xi tong yan jiu. Min zu chu ban she, 2007.

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Dybo, V. A. Morfonologizovannye paradigmaticheskie akt︠s︡entnye sistemy: Tipologii︠a︡ i genezis. I︠A︡zyki russkoĭ kulʹtury, 2000.

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Der perfekte Ton: Zur Dreidimensionalität afrikanischer Sprachen. Steiner, 2008.

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Creissels, Denis. Aperçu sur les structures phonologiques des langues négro-africaines. Editions littéraires et linguistiques de l'Université Stendhal--Grenoble 3, 1989.

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Creissels, Denis. Aperçu sur les structures phonologiques des langues négro-africaines. 2nd ed. ELLUG, Université Stendhal, 1994.

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Yip, Moira Jean Winsland. The tonal phonology of Chinese. Garland Pub., 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Phonology; Tone languages"

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Makasso, Emmanuel-Moselly, Fatima Hamlaoui, and Seunghun J. Lee. "Aspects of the intonational phonology of Bàsàá." In Intonation in African Tone Languages, edited by Laura J. Downing and Annie Rialland. De Gruyter, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110503524-006.

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"Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems." In The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages. BRILL, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004303218_010.

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"Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas." In The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages. BRILL, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004303218_006.

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Yip, M. "Tone: Phonology." In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Elsevier, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/00054-7.

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"Pitch in Language II: Tone." In The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511616983.004.

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"Intonation and Language." In The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511616983.005.

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"Pitch in Language I: Stress and Intonation." In The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511616983.003.

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Zhang, Jie. "The role of contrast-specific and language-specific phonetics in contour tone distribution." In Phonetically Based Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511486401.006.

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Conference papers on the topic "Phonology; Tone languages"

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Vong, Meng. "Southeast Asia: Linguistic Perspectives." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.10-2.

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Southeast Asia (SEA) is not only rich in multicultural areas but also rich in multilingual nations with the population of more than 624 million and more than 1,253 languages (Ethnologue 2015). With the cultural uniqueness of each country, this region also accords each national languages with language planning and political management. This strategy brings a challenges to SEA and can lead to conflicts among other ethnic groups, largely owing to leadership. The ethnic conflicts of SEA bring controversy between governments and minorities, such as the ethnic conflict in Aceh, Indonesia, the Muslim

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