The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi
Tone is an areal feature found in the majority of Southeast Asian languages. Just as not every Southeast Asian language is characterized by tone, it is not necessary that every tone language be characterized by the same mechanism for expressing tonal contrast. Over a decade ago, Bradley (1982) point...
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2024
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| Summary: | Tone is an areal feature found in the majority of Southeast Asian languages. Just as not every Southeast Asian language is characterized by tone, it is not necessary that every tone language be characterized by the same mechanism for expressing tonal contrast. Over a decade ago, Bradley (1982) pointed out that tone languages of Southeast Asia do not represent a homogeneity. Rather, there are considerable variations in terms of voicing quality, phonation type, and prosodic domain which defines the basic scope of a toneme. More recently, Matisoff (1999) discusses a number of tonal phenomena in an array of
languages of Southeast Asia. Syllable-tone, word-tone, and other
suprasegmental systems are reported to exist in Tibeto-Burman languages, but pitch-accent systems are not specifically discussed. |
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