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