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	Tone (linguistics) in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		It could be argued either that the tone is incidental to the phonation, in which case Burmese would not be phonemically tonal, or that the phonation is incidental to the tone, in which case it would be considered tonal.
		Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question.
		As a result, when one combines tone with sentence prosody, the absolute pitch of a high tone at the end of a clause may be lower than that of a low tone at the beginning, because average pitch tends to decrease with time in a process called downdrift.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/tone_(linguistics) (2688 words)

	Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question.
		As a result, when one combines tone with sentence prosody, the absolute pitch of a high tone at the end of a clause may be lower than that of a low tone at the beginning, because average pitch tends to decrease with time in a process called downdrift.
		The tone of a syllable is indicated by an interaction between the "class" of the initial consonant, the length of the vowel, the final consonant (occlusive or not), and sometimes a tone mark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tonal_language (2897 words)

	Tone (linguistics): Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tone is the use of pitch ((baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter) in language (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) to distinguish words.
		When this occurs, tones are equally important and essential as phoneme ((linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language) s (discrete speech sounds, for example, /t/, or /d/), and they are referred to as tonemes.
		Tone is defined by an interaction between the "class" of the initial consonant of a syllable and a possible "tone mark" above it.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tone_(linguistics).htm (1710 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tone (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some linguists have suggested that Sumerian may have had tones (presumably to try and reduce the great number of homonyms of Sumerian whose lexemes and morphemes are all monosyllabic), but that hypothesis has not been generally accepted.
		Generally tone in a language is an areal, not a genetic, feature: that is, a language tends to (but does not always automatically) acquire tones if many neighboring languages also are tonal.
		However, tone languages almost invariably use pitches relative to the speaker: in Doayo, for instance, the low tones of a female speaker can be the same absolute pitch as the high tones of a male speaker.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tone-(linguistics) (559 words)

	Linguistics
		Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr.
		A survey of linguistic theories, by Jerold A. Edmondson and Don Burquest
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/Linguistics.htm (475 words)

	Mixtec Bibliography
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1990.
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1991.
		Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 107.
	ling.wisc.edu /~macaulay/bib.mixtec.html (1453 words)

	ULCL - Franconian Tone Festival
		The tone accents have not yet been studied to a satisfactory degree in any of their aspects.
		A fundamental problem is posed by the precise realisation of the tone accents in different positions in the sentence.
		Gussenhoven, C. and P. van der Vliet 1999: The phonology of tone and intonation in the Dutch dialect of Venlo, Journal of Linguistics 35, 99-135.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /ulcl/events/fta.html (1303 words)

	LINGUISTICS - Linguistics 2 - Phonology : homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Phonology and Phonetics in Linguistics 2: In Linguistics 1 you learned some basic terminology for describing phonetic segments, and your learned principles for grouping segments into functionally distinct units (phonemes) in any given language and describing the phonemes in terms of functional classes (features).
		In Linguistics 2 we pursue both phonetic description and phonological analysis in several ways.
		Monday lecture (3 Oct.): Tone (I) (1) General introduction to tone; contours vs. levels; grammatical and lexical tone.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /teaching/undergrad/L2/modules/phono (596 words)

	Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1985 Ph.D. dissertation. Bibliography. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Fuzhou fangyan liandu yinbian yu yuyi fanbie" (Tone sandhi and semantic distinctions in the Fuzhou dialect).
		"Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 30: 86-110.
		"Suzhou fangyande liandu biandiao." (Tone sandhi in the Suzhou dialect).
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /chan9/pubn/phd-bib.htm (2932 words)

	Tone (linguistics) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		When this occurs, tones are equally important and essential as phonemes (discrete speech sounds, for example, /t/, or /d/), and they are referred to as tonemes.
		Panjabi is a true tone language where the tones arose as a reinterpretation of a consonant series in terms of pitch.
		In Mandarin pop music (but not in traditional theatre such as Beijing opera), the tones are generally dropped, thereby making the song hard to understand and sometimes ambiguous without written lyrics.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Tonal_language (1543 words)

	KU: Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Contour tone distribution is not an artifact of tonal melody mapping.
		The role of contrast-specific and language-specific phonetics in contour tone distribution.
		The effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution--A typological survey and formal analysis.
	www.linguistics.ku.edu /faculty/Dr_Zhang/index.shtml (208 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Phonological and morphological processes are frequently influenced by prosodic requirements, such as that prominent (stressed) syllables should have high tones, or that words should be of a particular size, usually either bi-syllabic (a metrical foot) or monosyllabic.
		In several papers I have investigated the role of prosody even in languages which have sometimes been claimed to lack prosody altogether, and I have shown that morphology in Chinese is often subject to prosodic influence, and also that tonal alternations frequently pay attention to prosodic boundaries and distinguish between prominent and non-prominent syllables.
		This theory allows direct expression of the cross-linguistic preferences as universal constraints, but because low-ranked constraints may be violated under pressure from higher-ranked constraints it also allows for the fact that even these preferences are not surface-true in all languages.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/moira/resume.html (2730 words)

	Curriculum Vitae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bridges Between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman, edited by Donna Jo Napoli and Judy Kegl, pp.
		Tone and Accent in Xhosa (with Karen Peterson and Joseph Drogo).
		The first autosegmental analysis of English intonation, and the origin of the -notation of accented tones* in intonation analyses.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/goldsmith/cv.htm (1602 words)

	David Mortensen, Linguistics, UC Berkeley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During the Fall 2003 Semester, I was a GSI (Graduate Student Instructor) for Linguistics 5.
		In Fall 2004, I was the GSI for Linguistics 130 (Historical Linguistics).
		Members of the general linguistic public are encouraged to use and contribute to this resource.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~dmort (524 words)

	Linguistics Homepage
		The contrast between the VF0 and CF0 results in the male speaker’s pilot data suggested that VF0 differences between vowels depend on the vowel’s prominence (or tone) because both are specified on the same segment.
		If obstruent voicing can after all be shown to perturb F0 regardless of the stops’ prosodic, tonal, or F0 context, then it’s possible to explain how depressor consonants interfere with H tone spreading or tone displacement past them in languages such as IsiXhosa (Cassimjee, 1998).
		Connell, B. Tone languages and the universality of intrinsic F0: Evidence from Africa, Journal of Phonetics, 30, 101-129.
	semlab2.sbs.sunysb.edu /events/col/abstracts/kingston.html (876 words)

	LINGUISTICS & SCIENCE FICTION INTERFACE
		I'm interested in the intersection between the use of language as a mechanism for solving humanity's problems and the use of science fiction as a laboratory for exploring those linguistic solutions.
		When science fiction is written language, it doesn't have tone of voice available except to the extent that the writer is able to give tone of voice a graphic shape.
		Linguists in the novel interface their infants with extraterrestrials in order to acquire new ET languages for interplanetary trade and diplomacy; an artificial language is constructed for the purpose of changing the society.
	www.webspawner.com /users/sfling (757 words)

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		[Apiluck92] Tumtavitikul, Apiluck (1992) Consonant Onsets and Tones in Thai.
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 98.
		Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 124 Jerold A. Edmondson; David B. Solnit (eds.).
	crcl.th.net /bib/by-name.htm (12322 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Proceedings of the XIIIth North Eastern Linguistics Society Conference, University of Quebec at Montreal, pp 243-251.
		Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics VII.University of California at Irvine.
		The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, NewYork: 245-268.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/moira/test.html (815 words)

	Larry Hyman CV
		—L.M. Hyman and Kenneth VanBik, “Tone and syllable structure of the Hakha (Lai-Chin) noun”.
		Tone and stem2 formation in Hakha Lai (with Kenneth VanBik).
		Tone and syllable structure of the Hakha (Lai-Chin) noun (with Kenneth VanBik).
	linguistics.berkeley.edu /~hyman/HymanCV.html (2971 words)

	Southwest Journal of Linguistics: A Phonological Model for Intonation Without Low Tone.(Book Review) (book review)
		In A phonological model for intonation without low tone, Mercedes Cabrera-Abreu takes an approach to intonational phonology that deviates significantly from many recent studies, and especially from those within the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) theory.
		As indicated in the title, one of the main tenets of intonational phonology that C-A challenges is the existence of a low tone (L).
		Rather than distinguish between a high tone (H) and L, C-A argues that there is a...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb1440/is_200212/ai_n5870702 (287 words)

	Welcome to Berkeley Linguistics
		Historical linguistics, especially mechanisms of sound change and evolutionary explanations for linguistic universals.
		Interests: Cognitive-functional linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology; evolution of perception, cognition, and language; socio-cultural propagation and harmonization; emergent systems; neuro- cognitive automatization; cognitive constraints on orientation and memory and their relevance for "context" and the flow of conversation.
		Tone, vowel harmony, sound change, affix ordering, biological origin of language.
	linguistics.berkeley.edu /people/grad.html (523 words)

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