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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Main Author: Watters, David E.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178776