Tonal change and neutralization /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]
Description:	vi, 383 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Phonology and phonetics ; volume 27 Phonology and phonetics ; 27.
Subject:	Tone (Phonetics) Intonation (Phonetics) Japanese language -- Dialects -- Phonetics. Chinese language -- Dialects -- Phonetics. Chinese language -- Dialects -- Phonetics. Intonation (Phonetics) Japanese language -- Dialects -- Phonetics. Tone (Phonetics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11617808

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Other authors / contributors:	Kubozono, Haruo, editor. Giriko, Mikio, editor.
ISBN:	9783110564600 3110564602
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This is the first book on tonal change and neutralization. It covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia, Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Japanese and Chinese dialects many of which are now endangered. In addition to presenting unpublished data, the book provides novel typological analyses of tone and neutralization"--
Other form:	Online version: Tonal change and neutralization. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2018 9783110567502

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Tonal Neutralization
Towards a Typology of Postlexical Tonal Neutralizations
Postlexical Tonal Neutralizations in Kagoshima Japanese
Tonal Neutralization and Lexical Category in Nagasaki Japanese
Tonal Neutralization in the Ikema Dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan
Accentual Neutralization in Japanese Dialects
Chinese Tonal Neutralization across Dialects: From Typological, Geographical, and Diachronic Perspectives
Part II. Tonal Change
Towards a Typology of Tone System Changes
Common Tone Sandhi Processes across Sino-Tibetan Languages
Phonetic and Systemic Biases in Tonal Contour Changes in Bangkok Thai
Bilingualism and Accent Changes in Kagoshima Japanese
From Nyoro to Tooro: Historical and Phonetic Accounts of Tone Merger
In Defense of a Dialect-contact Scenario of the Central Franconian Tonogenesis
Index

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