Description
This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and pitch target alignment.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
429 pages
Language
English
Published
Oct 23, 2007
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Editions
2 editions
ISBN-10
3110190583
ISBN-13
9783110190588