Contour tones from lost syllables in Central Tibetan
A recent paper by Mazaudon and Michailovsky (1989) describes the origins of contour tones in Dzongkha Tibetan through a mechanism rather unusual for Asian languages. In Asian languages we are accustomed to seeing contour tones develop concurrent with a reduction in the number of distinctions among s...
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2024
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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