Tone Languages

Title Page......Page 1
Preface......Page 3
Analytical Table of Contents......Page 7
Part I. Characteristics of Tone Languages......Page 11
I. Types of Tone Languages......Page 13
II. Tone Characteristics Contributing to the Difficulties of Tonemic Analysis......Page 28
Part II. Steps in Determining the Number and Kind of Tonemes in a Language......Page 51
III. Preliminary Steps in Tonal Analysis......Page 53
IV. Classification of Words into Groups with Contrastive Pitch for Tonal Analysis......Page 58
V. Analysis of the Contrastive Pitches of Groups of Words Uniform in Pitch......Page 65
Part III. The Analysis of Tonemic Substitution in Phrases......Page 79
VI. Procedure for the Analysis of Tonemic Substitution in Phrases......Page 81
VII. Tonemic Perturbations in Mixtec, with Special Emphasis on Tonomechanical Subclasses......Page 87
VIII. Tonemic Perturbations in Mazateco, with Special Emphasis on Tonemic Fusion......Page 105
Bibliography......Page 177
Index......Page 185