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Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt How an intonation system accommodates to adverse phonological environments

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In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opp...

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Main Author: B. Roettger, Timo (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2017
Series:Studies in Laboratory Phonology
Subjects:
linguistics
berber languages
pitch movements
vowels
voice
tonal events
Intonation (linguistics)
Phonetics
Phonology
Prosody (linguistics)
Schwa
Sonorant
Stress (linguistics)
Syllable
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