Tone Analysis for Field Linguists

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
   
   • 1.1 What is a tone language?
     
   • 1.2 Tonal contrast
     
   • 1.3 Contrastive tone height
     
   • 1.4 The concept of tone patterns
     
   • 1.5 Data collection
     
2. Methodology for Phonological Analysis of Tone
   
   • 2.1 Setting up a database
     
   • 2.2 Procedure for tone analysis
     
   • 2.3 Words spoken in isolation
     
   • 2.4 Words spoken in other morphological environments
     
   • 2.5 Words spoken in other phrasal environments
     
3. Phonetics of Pitch
   
   • 3.1 The articulation of pitch
     
   • 3.2 The acoustics of pitch
     
   • 3.3 Acoustic analysis
     
   • 3.4 Acoustic studies
     
4. Tone and Orthography
   
   • 4.1 Functional load
     
   • 4.2 Failure of writing surface representations
     
   • 4.3 Critiques of some strategies for marking tone
     
   • 4.4 Phonologically ideal orthography
     
   • 4.5 Issues in representing tonal contrasts
     
   • 4.6 Issues with teaching tone
     
   • 4.7 Conclusion
     
5. Phonological Analysis of Chumburung Tone
   
   • 5.1 Setting up the database and entering data
     
   • 5.2 Full analysis of preliminary words
     
   • 5.3 Analysis of isolation forms of remaining words
     
   • 5.4 Analysis of remaining words in other morphological environments
     
   • 5.5 Analysis of remaining words in phrasal environments
     
   • 5.6 Conclusions
     
6. The Lexical Orthography Hypothesis Applied to Chumburung Tone
   
   • 6.1 Lexical and postlexical processes in Chumburung
     
   • 6.2 LOH applied to Chumburung
     

References
Index