10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONE LANGUAGE»
Discover the use of
tone language in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tone language and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
African
Language Structures
It is inherent in every proposed definition of a tone language that at least one of
the functions of tone is to participate in distinguishing different lexical items in a
language from each other. Commonly, there are some pairs or sets of words in ...
William Everett Welmers, 1974
2
Language Experience in Second
Language Speech Learning: In ...
Interestingly, they found that tone and non- tone language speakers used
different strategies for perceiving these artificial continua. Vietnamese and
Mandarin speakers used the mid-point of the continuum as a basis for their
categorisation.
Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Murray J. Munro, 2007
3
The relationship between music and
language
While speakers of a tone language performed more poorly in the detection of
downward pitch changes, they did not differ from non-tone language speakers in
their perception of upward pitch changes or in their perception of subtle time ...
4
An Introduction to
Language
In a tone language it is not the absolute pitch of the syllables that is important but
the relations among the pitches of different syllables. Thus men, women, and
children with differently pitched voices can still communicate in a tone language.
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams, 2013
5
Language typology and
language universals: an international ...
Welmers' (1959, 1973) definition is as good as most: “A tone language is a
language in which both pitch phonemes and segmental phonemes enter into the
composition of at least some morphemes.” Thus, tone is clearly indicated in the
case ...
6
The First Glot International State-of-the-article Book: The ...
By this definition, Japanese is not a tone language, because only the accented
syllable carries a contrastive tone. Similarly, Swedish and Norwegian are not
tone languages, because only the stressed syllable carries a contrastive tone (
Pike ...
Lisa Lai Shen Cheng, R. P. E. Sybesma, 2000
7
The Cambridge History of the English
Language
Saramaccan is a tone language, with minimal pairs such as da (high tone) 'to
give' vs da (non-high tone) 'to be'. Tone plays an important role in Saramaccan
not only on the lexical level but also on the grammatical level by marking
syntactic ...
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Robert Burchfield, 1994
When we study a modern tone language it is not always possible to reconstruct
its history, but there are enough cases in which it can be done to enable us to
make some general statements about where tones come from. The usual source
of ...
9
The Phonology of
Tone and Intonation
319 tone features 27-34 tone language 12-15. 26-38, 75 tone language, terraced
level tone language, discrete level tone letter 28 tone loss 234-250 tone melody
tone reversal 245 tone tier 28-29, 33, 129, 144-157, 176, 190-198 tone sandhi ...
10
Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for ...
The hypothesis is set forth that native command of a tone language facilitates the
acquisition of tone patterns of word-accent languages. The study presents
experimental data to empirically evaluate this hypothesis. It examines two groups
of ...
Raymond Hickey, Stanislav Puppel, 1997
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONE LANGUAGE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tone language is used in the context of the following news items.
Lost languages leave traces on the brain
People who speak tone languages have differences in brain activity in a certain region of the brain's left hemisphere. This region activates in response to pitch ... «Ars Technica, Nov 14»
Speakers of tonal languages are better able to hear music, study finds
“Speaking a tone language does help you hear aspects of music better,” says Gavin Bidelman, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis who led the ... «Globe and Mail, Apr 13»
Tone language is key to perfect pitch
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix – these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. The ability ... «Eureka! Science News, May 09»
