More on the representation of contour tones

• Main Author: Maddieson, Ian
• Other Authors: University of California, Los Angeles
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178679
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

in LTBA IV.I Candour and Fromkin (1978, cf Candour 1975) draw attention to an alternation of tone in the Tai dialect of Lue (Li 1964) which may provide crucial evidence in favor of the representation of contour tones as indivisible units rather than as sequences of level tones. They propose that the...