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tonogenesis: a standalone construct

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Historical linguistics

emergence of lexical tone from pitch perturbations caused by neighboring consonants, such as voicing, that later become contrastive.

In historical linguistics, tonogenesis refers to emergence of lexical tone from pitch perturbations caused by neighboring consonants, such as voicing, that later become contrastive. This meaning comes from Hombert (1979) in Language.[1]

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emergence5 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs neighboring1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct pitch3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Hombert, J., Ohala, J. J., & Ewan, W. G. (1979). Phonetic explanations for the development of tones. Language, 55(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.2307/412518

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