Keith Snider
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Description
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...