Tonal Change and Neutralization
Published on 9. April 2018
Book
Mixed media product
VIII, 320 pages
978-3-11-056751-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book on tonal change and neutralization. It covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia, Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Japanese and Chinese dialects many of which are now endangered. In addition to presenting unpublished data, the book provides novel typological analyses of tone and neutralization.
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Persons
Haruo Kubozono, National Instiute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan; Mikio Giriko, Osaka University, Japan.