The Structure of Tone

By Zhiming Bao

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118804
• ISBN13: 9780195118803
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"