The Structure of Tone(Repost)
The Structure of Tone by Zhiming Bao
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0195118804 | 264 Pages | PDF | 9.60 MB
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0195118804 | 264 Pages | PDF | 9.60 MB
This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone languages, providing empirical support for his proposal that tone is a formal entity which consists of register and contour. Bao establishes a clear typological distinction between register tone languages and contour tone languages whose contour tones have a more complex structure.