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Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Bandi tonology offers three points of interest. The first is low tone opacity. Several tone rules act to obscure the presence of underlying low tones in Bandi.
Robert Mugele, Michael Rodewald
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Investigating environmental effects on phonology using diachronic models
Evolutionary Human SciencesPrevious work has proposed various mechanisms by which the environment may affect the emergence of linguistic features. For example, dry air may cause careful control of pitch to be more effortful, and so affect the emergence of linguistic distinctions ...
Frederik Hartmann +3 more
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Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages [PDF]
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Listeners often find some non-native sounds difficult to perceive. For example, lexical tones in Chinese languages are difficult for non-native listeners to perceive, although pitch is frequently used in their first language (L1) and is not unfamiliar to them.
Qin, Zhen, Mok, Peggy P. K.
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On the Role of Embellishment Tones in the Perceptual Segregation of Concurrent Musical Parts
Empirical Musicology Review, 2007 An analysis of 50 chorale harmonizations by J.S. Bach shows that the use of embellishment tones is consistent with several principles known to contribute to the perceptual segregation of auditory streams.
David Huron
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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.
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Electronic Resources Security: A look at Unauthorized Users
Code4Lib Journal, 2010 Much of the literature written on electronic resources security focuses on systematic downloading. However, when the unauthorized use from two cases of stolen identities at the University of Saskatchewan was studied in more depth, a different pattern ...
Heather Tones White
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The role of suppression in psychophysical tone-on-tone masking [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010 This study tested the hypothesis that suppression contributes to the difference between simultaneous masking (SM) and forward masking (FM). To obtain an alternative estimate of suppression, distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) were measured in the presence of a suppressor tone. Psychophysical-masking and DPOAE-suppression measurements were
Joyce, Rodríguez +6 more
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Tones in the Cuoi Language of Tan Ki District in Nghe An Province, Vietnam
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019 This paper gives an overview of the phonetic characteristics of the tone system of the Cuoi language, a Vietic language spoken in Nghe An province in Vietnam.
Nguyen Huu Hoanh, Nguyen Van Loi
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Journal of East Asian LinguisticsAbstractThis paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. It is based on data collected in 2018 from two female native speakers.
Chen, Sherry Yong +1 more
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Tout ton flottant bas autorise-t-il la propogation du ton haut précedent en Dagara-Wule.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 2001 This study addresses the syntactic implications of low floating tones in Wule, one of the three varieties of Dagara, a language of the Voltai'c Group spoken in the northern part of Ghana and the southern part of Burkina Faso, The data show that if ...
Penou-Achille Somé
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