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- 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. Instead, there is a major typological split between those languages that use tone to distinguish morphemes and words versus those that do not.
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The Phonology of Tone and Intonation. Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speak-ers of many languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes morphemes, and intonation gives utterances a further discoursal meaning that is independent of the meanings of the words themselves.
phonology: Phonological phenomena are no longer treated as random events. That falling tones are formed before a low tone and not before a high tone is not considered as an accident. A phonological process is expressed by a direct connection of some part of the phonological representation of a neighbouring segment.
This chapter surveys issues related to the production of tone in the world’s languages. Here the term ‘tone’ refers to the localised (within-syllable) use of fundamental frequency that contrasts lexical meanings (thus excluding pitch accent and stress languages).
Nov 27, 2020 · This chapter surveys phonological variation in English from a wide range of perspectives. I draw on the methods and findings of several academic traditions, especially phonetics, phonology, dialectol...
Designed as a comprehensive study accessible to the novice and useful for the expert, each chapter covers a particular aspect of tone in increasing depth and complexity, weaving together key concepts and theories that provide complementing or competing accounts of tone's phonological intricacies.
This chapter reviews commonly recurring tendencies in the phonetic realization of tones, both in intonation and in lexical tone systems. It discusses local interactions between tonal targets, such as tonal coarticulation, dissimilatory H-raising, and rightward target displacement.
Apr 10, 2020 · The term phonological tone implies the possibility of a combination of phonetic features working in tandem to form a tone, rather than pitch alone. The definition in (1) therefore could have used the term phonological tone in place of “suprasegmental form.”
