This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone languages, providing empirical support for his proposal that tone is a formal entity which consists of register and contour. Bao< br> establishes a clear typological distinction between register tone languages and contour tone languages whose contour tones have a more complex structure.

• ISBN: 0195118804
• ISBN-13: 9780195118803
• Author : Zhiming Bao
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 5/1/1999
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
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