Tone Analysis for Field Linguists - Softcover

Snider, Keith L

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9781556714221: Tone Analysis for Field Linguists
Softcover
ISBN 10: 155671422X ISBN 13: 9781556714221
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications, 2017

Synopsis

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features:
- Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists
- Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive tones of tone-bearing units
- Focuses on keeping constant all factors that can potentially affect tone, so that utterances being compared are truly comparable
- Includes a chapter on the phonetic properties of pitch
- Presents principles for developing orthographies for tone languages
- Includes comprehensive accompanying online exercises* that guide students from beginning to end through a complete analysis of nominal tone in a single language, Chumburung.

Assuming little prior knowledge of tone or tone languages, Tone Analysis for Field Linguists is readily accessible to students and field workers alike who have previously taken introductory courses in articulatory phonetics, phonology, and morphology and syntax.

*Instructors may access the accompanying online exercises. Register here: https: //www.sil.org/resources/publications/toneanalysis_teachermaterials

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About the Author

Keith L. Snider (D.Litt. Leiden University) has specialized in issues related to tone since his fieldwork in Ghana with the Chumburung in the 1980s. He has participated in or led workshops dealing with tone and orthography for over fifty languages, and teaches a course on tone analysis for SIL International.

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Publisher
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
155671422X
ISBN 13 
9781556714221
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
206
Rating
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