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Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2008 Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category ‘focus’ is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies. In intonation languages, focus is marked by pitch movement, which is also perceived as tone.
Hartmann, Katharina
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Chinese and English Infants’ Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization. [PDF]
, 2006 Over half the world’s population speaks a tone language, yet infant speech perception research has typically focused on consonants and vowels. Very young infants can discriminate a wide range of native and nonnative consonants and vowels, and then in a ...
Burnham, Denis +3 more
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Low tone spreading in Buli [PDF]
, 2003 In Buli, tone indicates lexical information as well as grammatical information. The changing of tone patterns regularly observed on lexemes is covered best by an autosegmental approach with autonomous tonal and segmental tiers.
Schwarz, Anne
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Spruce-tone/DMD_Pycrafter9000: First release
, 2023 No description ...
Spruce-tone
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Reanalyse des tons du Bambara des tons du nom a l'organisation general du systeme
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 A partir de l'etude des noms, il est apparu progressivement (1) que Ie bambara, comme.le mende, possedait des schemes tonals de mot; (2) qu'a ces schemes s'ajoutait un ton haut flottant, que nous avons appele "ton haut de liaison"; (3) que l'association ...
Annie Railland, Mamadou Badjime
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What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches
Glossa, 2021 Yukuna is an understudied Arawak language of North-West Amazonia with a privative tonal system. In this system, roots are underlyingly specified for tone, whilst affixes are toneless. However, affixation interacts with tone, leading to many variations in
Dan Dediu +2 more
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Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 In recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara.
Torben Andersen
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Issues about tone rules in Xitshwa
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017 This paper examines High Tone Spread (HTS) within and beyond verb words in Xitshwa, an undocumented Bantu language (S51, Guthrie 1967‑1971) spoken in southern Mozambique, Inhambane province.
Zeferino Ugembe
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17 ways to say yes:Toward nuanced tone of voice in AAC and speech technology [PDF]
, 2015 People with complex communication needs who use speech-generating devices have very little expressive control over their tone of voice. Despite its importance in human interaction, the issue of tone of voice remains all but absent from AAC research and ...
Graham Pullin +3 more
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