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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Main Author: Delancey, Scott
Other Authors: University of Oregon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179190
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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