The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi

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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Main Author: Ding, Picus Sizhi
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1780522024-06-12T08:09:00Z The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi Ding, Picus Sizhi Arts and Humanities 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. Published version 2024-06-07T01:57:23Z 2024-06-07T01:57:23Z 2001 Journal Article Ding, P. S. (2001). The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 24(2), 57-83. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.24.2.03 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178052 10.32655/LTBA.24.2.03 2 24 57 83 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2001 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi
description 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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