The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution

A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis

By:

Jie Zhang

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Hardback

Series:

Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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This book presents a detailed and enlightening examination of the effects of duration and sonority on the patterns of positional restriction of contour tones. Through a typological survey and analysis of 187 genetically diverse languages the author challenges the theoretical standpoint from which the problem has been traditionally addressed, and adds to the growing amount of data, which places the dichotomy between phonology and phonetics into question. The results of this rigorous investigation are, the author argues, inexpressible in traditional phonology and requires an innovative collapsing of the older model's operative distinction. This new theoretical model allows the author to provide a hitherto unavailable accounting of contour tones, but also represents a major theoretical contribution in its own right.

Release date NZ

August 2nd, 2002

Author

Jie Zhang

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

294

Series

Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780415941563

Product ID

4029882

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