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Tone Analysis for Field Linguists

Tone Analysis for Field Linguists

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LinguisticsOther African Languages

Publisher Price: $42.95

ISBN10: 155671422X
ISBN13: 9781556714221
Publisher: Sil Intl Global Pub
Published: Dec 1 2017
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features:
- Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists
- Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive tones of tone-bearing units
- Focuses on keeping constant all factors that can potentially affect tone, so that utterances being compared are truly comparable
- Includes a chapter on the phonetic properties of pitch
- Presents principles for developing orthographies for tone languages
- Includes comprehensive accompanying online exercises* that guide students from beginning to end through a complete analysis of nominal tone in a single language, Chumburung.

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