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Phonetic Explanations for the Development of Tones
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The development of contrastive tone because of the articulatory reinterpretation of segmentally-caused perturbations in intrinsic fundamental frequency is well attested in a number of unrelated languages. Considering the wide-spread character of this process, it is likely that its ‘seeds’ can be found in the functioning of the human articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms. This paper reviews what the authors consider promising explanations for well-attested tonal sound patterns, e.g. tone originating from the effect of prevocalic stop consonants or postvocalic glottal consonants, and tone rarely or never originating from the influence of postvocalic non-glottal consonants or from vowel height.
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- Hombert, J.-M., Ohala, J. J., & Ewan, W. G.
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- Language
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1979-03
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 37
- ISSN
- 0097-8507 (ISSN-L)
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- W2095015070
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- 655
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- 1
- FWCI
- 3.81
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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