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While Pike originally saw tone as a contrastive feature on each syllable or other tone-bearing unit (TBU), Welmers’ definition insists on the MORPHOLOGICAL nature of tone: tone is not a property of syllables, as expressed by Pike, but rather of morphemes.
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In large domains of theoretical and empirical linguistics, scholarly communication needs are directly comparable to those in analytical and natural sciences. Conspicuously lacking in the inventory publications for linguists, compared to those in the sciences, are concise, single-authored, non-textbook reviews of rapidly evolving areas of inquiry. R...
The question of how the delicate pitch variations that humans can produce are employed in language has been one of the most fascinating topics in phonological and phonetic research at least since Joshua Steele’s Essay towards establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech (Steele 1775), but has developed a particularly fruitful momentum in the past ...
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In reality, the physics of tone will involve intensity, duration, and other acoustic properties as well, in relation to the human articulatory systems. Through an overview of the physical dimensions of tone, this section hopes to reveal some of the complexities that are less often studied.
Cross-linguistically, languages vary with respect to the contrastive role played by f0 (e.g., tone or pitch accent contrast) and by non-modal phonation on vowels. Selected examples are displayed in Table 4, with the contrastive role of f0 shown in rows and the contrastive role of vowel phonation shown in columns.
1. Introduction: What is tone? All languages use “tone” if what is meant is either pitch or the F0 variations that are unavoidable in spoken language. However, this is not what is generally meant when the term is used by phonologists.
In 'Tone: Is it different?' (Hyman 20Ua), I suggested that 'tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so', emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do. In this presidential address my focus extends beyond phonology, specifically addressing what tone tells us about the integration (vs. compartmentalization) of ...
The notions of “level tone” and “contour tone” are used in two different ways. Let us first introduce what can be broadly termed as “Africanist” usage, in which “level tone” refers to a tone that is defined simply by a discrete level of relative pitch.
