Book: The Structure Of Tone 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.
Details of Book: The Structure Of Tone Book: The Structure Of Tone
Author: Zhiming Bao
ISBN: 0195118804
ISBN-13: 9780195118803
, 978-0195118803
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 27051999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Number of Pages: 268
Language: English