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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450692003321

Autore

Bao Zhiming <1957->

Titolo

The structure of tone [[electronic resource] /] / Zhiming Bao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-76164-4

0-19-535332-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

495.115

495.116

Soggetti

Chinese language - Tone

Tone (Phonetics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Theories of Tone: A Survey; Chapter Three: The Representation of Tone; Chapter Four: The Autosegmental Nature of Tone; Chapter Five: Tone in Phonological Representation; Chapter Six: The Mid Tone; Chapter Seven: Epilogue; Notes; Appendix; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.