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Roadmap: Why do we believe that there is such a thing as TONE? What are the articulatory apparatuses relevant for tone production? How is tone notated or transcribed? What are the acoustic correlates of tone? What can tones do in human languages? INVOKING TONE As a phonological construct, the notion of tone and its representation is motivated by puzzles: phenomena that do not square with expectations and hence require explanation (Uyechi & Wee 2009:xiii-xxiii). Thus, instead of starting out assuming that there is such a thing as tone in phonology and then going on to explaining what it is and how different people have understood it, it would be more objective to look at phenomena that might motivate such a postulation. For example, in Japanese, a Japonic language, hashi-ga can mean 'chopsticks', 'bridge', or 'edge'. There is nothing interesting here, since all languages have HOMOPHONES. For example, in English run [rʌn] can refer to an action of alternating one's legs forward quickly, a loose tread on clothing or a place where chickens are kept. In the case of English run, the word's meaning cannot be clarified without context. However, this is not the case with hashi-ga in Japanes

Author

Wee, Lian-Hee

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108596336