This second edition presents a completely revised overview of research on intonational
phonology since the 1970s, including new material on research developments since the mid …

In this paper, we propose a preliminary framework for accounting for certain surface F0
variations in speech. The framework consists of definitions for pitch targets and rules of their …

The book is the first systematic exploration of a series of phonological phenomena
previously thought to be unified under the rubric of syllable weight. Drawing on a typological …

First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an
in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The …

This dissertation proposes a new model of subsegmental phonology within Optimality
Theory that differs from standard Autosegmental Phonology both in its limited use of …

Annotation This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a
wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone …

Previous studies have reported that F₀ contours of lexical tones in Mandarin are closely
aligned with the syllables that carry them and that this alignment is late-adjusted so that the …

The experiment presented in this paper shows that Northern and Southern Vietnamese
tones in isolation are identified by listeners through a small set of acoustic properties. Each …

abstract At first glance, the five-tone system of Thai looks quite simple. However, a detailed
examination of the phonological distributions of segments and tones, combined with a …

This paper shows how one can formalize the phonology-phonetics interface within
constraint-based frameworks such as Optimality Theory (OT) or Harmonic Grammar (HG) …