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Tones and tunes. /

This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with bra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gussenhoven, Carlos, 1946-, Riad, Tomas, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.
Colección:Phonology and phonetics ; 12.2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume presents 14 experimental studies of lexical tone and intonation in a wide variety of languages. Six papers deal with the discriminability or the function of intonation contours and lexical tones in specific languages, as established on the basis of listener responses, as well as with brain activation patterns resulting from the perception of tonal and intonational stimuli. The remaining eight papers report on detailed phonetic findings on a variety of tonal phenomena in a number of languages, including declination in tone languages, final lowering, consonant-tone interactions and p.
Notas:Originally published in 2007.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110207576
3110207575
9783110190588
3110190583
ISSN:1861-4191 ;