The phonology of tone : the representation of tonal register / / edited by Harry van der Hulst, Keith Snider

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788713003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1993
• ISBN: 3-11-086937-3
• Edizione: [Reprint 2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Linguistic models ; ; 17
• Classificazione: ET 225
• Disciplina: 414/.6
• Soggetti: Tone (Phonetics); Register (Linguistics); Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Affiliations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register / Snider, Keith / Hulst, Harry van der -- Representation of Downstep in Dschang Bamileke / Clark, Mary M. -- Register Tones and Tonal Geometry / Hyman, Larry M. -- In Defense of a Metrical Theory of Intonational Downstep / Ladd, Robert -- Spreading and Downstep: Prosodic Government in Tone Languages / Manfredi, Victor -- Dschang and Ebrie as Akan-type Total Downstep Languages / Stewart, John M. -- Tonal Register in East Asian Languages / Yip, Moira -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter