Acoustic evidence suggests that contemporary Seoul Korean may be developing a tonal
system, which is arising in the context of a nearly completed change in how speakers use …

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 …

The topic of this study is grammatical tone (GT), which I define as a tonological operation
that is not general across the phonological grammar, and is restricted to the context of a …

A central issue in phonology is whether contour segments exist (see, for example, Chomsky
and Halle 1968, Campbell 1974, Anderson 1976, Herbert 1975, 1986, Sagey 1986, Steriade …

Korean is thought to be unique in having three kinds of voiceless stops: aspirated/ph th kh/,
tense/p* t* k*/, and lax/ptk/. The contrast between tense and lax stops raises two theoretical …

Abstract Tamang (Bodic division of Tibeto-Burman) is spoken at the edge of the East Asian
'tone-prone'zone, next to the almost tone-free Indian linguistic area, and is, chronologically …

Modern varieties of Tibetan are spoken across a broad area reaching from northern
Pakistan to Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan. Although the literature refers to Tibetan …

A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy to the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Victoria …

Every regular Chinese syllable has a syllable tone (the tone we get when the syllable is read
in isolation). In some Chinese languages, the tonal pattern of a multisyllabic expression is …

This paper examines the cues for and interaction between the metrical and tonal systems of
Kera. Kera has no word-level stress, but the heads of its quantity-sensitive iambic feet are …