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Moore, Denny; Meyer, Julien – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper describes the methods used to study the tone and some related phenomena of the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil, which is part of the Mondé branch of the Tupi family. Whistling of words by indigenous informants was discovered to be a very effective method for obtaining phonetic accuracy in tone and length. Methods were devised…
Descriptors: Intonation, Tone Languages, Language Research, Speech