Vietnamese tone : a new analysis / Andrea Hoa Pham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pham, Andrea Hoa, 1958-

Series:

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics.

Outstanding dissertations in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnamese language--Intonation.

Vietnamese language.

Vietnamese language--Phonetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 181 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 INTRODUCTION; Vietnamese; Features and Complexity; Overview; 2 PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES; The Traditional Classification; The Mismatch Problem; A Structural Classification; Supporting Evidence; 3 THE TONAL INVENTORY; Six Tones or Eight?; An Eight-Tone System; The Additional Tones; 4 THE ACOUSTICS OF TONE; Previous Studies; A New Acoustic Study; Summary; 5 THE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY OF TONE; Resolving the Mismatch Problem; Tonal Shape and Phonation Types; The Phonetics of Tone; Summary; 6 THE DOMAIN OF TONE; The Vietnamese Syllable; The Significance of Rhyme; 7 CONCLUSION; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-178) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-135-88607-5

0-415-86136-5

1-280-09869-4

0-203-50008-3

9780203500088

OCLC:

252941619