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Direct linkAlexander, Jennifer Alexandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Lexical-tone languages use fundamental frequency (F0/pitch) to convey word meaning. About 41.8% of the world's languages use lexical tone (Maddieson, 2008), yet those systems are under-studied. I aim to increase our understanding of speech-sound inventory organization by extending to tone-systems a model of vowel-system organization, the Theory of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Semantics, Thai, Mandarin Chinese
