Emergent word tone in Kham: a Tibeto-Burman halfway house
The Tibeto-Burman languages of Southeast Asia have long been characterized as solidly monosyllabic. And rightly so. Words, phrases, and sentences consisted of phonologically discreet monosyllabic morphemes marching along to the cadence of one tone per syllable. On occasion, of course, questions were...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178776 |