Lexical tone in Deori: loss, contrast and word based alignment
In this paper we investigate the existence of tones in Deori, a language which is historically known to have had tonal distinctions. In a study, 5 speakers were recorded for their production of potential lexical tones in a list of 34 words, and a list of 54 monosyllabic roots were recorded for a vow...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/1906 |