Tones and Features: Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives

Book

Tones and Features

Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives

Edited by: John A. Goldsmith , Elizabeth Hume and Leo Wetzels

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Explore this Subject How to publish with us

This book is in the series

Volume 107 | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

About this book

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing on tones and features including their formal representation and phonetic foundation.

Author / Editor information

John A. Goldsmith, University of Chicago, USA; Elisabeth Hume, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA; Leo Wetzels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.

Reviews

"The book provides useful insights into phonetic and phonological perspectives of language research, including the basics of data collection, methods of recording, and selecting equipment. [...] The collection is a valuable tool of individual resources for anyone interested in an in-depth study of various phonetic and phonological theories, along with their assumptions and interpretation. The exhaustive treatment of the underlying forms of features with special reference to certain African languages, both in terms of tones and features, makes the book an important contribution to the field of phonology."
Seetha Jayaraman in: Linguist List 23.2378

Topics

Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Frontmatter
I

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Contents
V

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Preface
VII

Download PDF
1. The representation and nature of tone
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Do we need tone features?
3
G.N. Clements, Alexis Michaud and Cédric Patin

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb
25
John Goldsmith and Fidèle Mpiranya

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Do tones have features?
50
Larry M. Hyman

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Features impinging on tone
81
David Odden

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wulé
108
Annie Rialland and Penou-Achille Somé

Download PDF
2. The representation and nature of phonological features
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs
137
Grzegorz Dogil, Steven M. Lulich, Andreas Madsack and Wolfgang Wokurek

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient?
149
Pierre A. Hallé and Martine Adda-Decker

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives /s, sʹ/: Implications for the features [spread glottis] and [tense]
176
Hyunsoon Kim and Chae-Lim Park

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory
195
John J. McCarthy

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems
223
Jeff Mielke, Lyra Magloughlin and Elizabeth Hume

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Language-independent bases of distinctive features
264
Rachid Ridouane, G. N. Clements and Rajesh Khatiwada

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian
292
Jerzy Rubach

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perceptual properties
306
Jacqueline Vaissière

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

The representation of vowel height and vowel height neutralization in Brazilian Portuguese (Southern Dialects)
331
W. Leo Wetzels

Download PDF
Requires Authentication Unlicensed

Licensed

Index
361

Download PDF

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

October 28, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110246223

Hardcover published on:

October 27, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110246216

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

12

Main content:

369

Other:

Num. figs.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246223

eBook ISBN: 9783110246223

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110246216

Keywords for this book

Language Typology; Phonology; Prosody

Audience(s) for this book

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Generative Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology.

Safety & product resources

Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com

Tones and Features

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Do we need tone features?

Rhythm, quantity and tone in the Kinyarwanda verb

Do tones have features?

Features impinging on tone

Downstep and linguistic scaling in Dagara-Wulé

Crossing the quantal boundaries of features: Subglottal resonances and Swabian diphthongs

Voice assimilation in French obstruents: Categorical or gradient?

An acoustic study of the Korean fricatives /s, sʹ/: Implications for the features [spread glottis] and [tense]

Autosegmental spreading in Optimality Theory

Evaluating the effectiveness of Unified Feature Theory and three other feature systems

Language-independent bases of distinctive features

Representation of complex segments in Bulgarian

Proposals for a representation of sounds based on their main acoustico-perceptual properties

The representation of vowel height and vowel height neutralization in Brazilian Portuguese (Southern Dialects)

Index

Bibliographic data