The Structure of Tone

• Author(s): Zhiming Bao,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Pages: 252
• ISBN_10: 0195118804
  ISBN_13: 9780195118803
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Chinese , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology , Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching , Music / Instruction & Study / Theory ,

Description:... 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.