The Structure of Tone
ISBN13: 9780195118803ISBN10: 0195118804
Hardback,
264 pages
Apr 1999,
In Stock
Price:
$145.00 (04)Description
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 establishes a clear typological distinction between register tone languages and contour tone languages whose contour tones have a more complex structure.About the Author(s)
Zhiming Bao, Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
