The structure of tone /

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 establish...

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Main Author: Bao, Zhiming, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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