LIN229H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Diacritic, 2D Computer Graphics
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Intonation: sentence level pitch contrast, stretches over the entire sentence, conversationally, gives information over the discourse, does not change the meaning of the word/morpheme, no word level contrast in tone. Lexical tone contrast: changes in pitch that contrast words, lexical, morphological, tone languages vs. atonal languages, clumps in regions, regions with tonal languages: sub-saharan africa, southeast asia, central. America: more languages have tone than languages that do not. Tone in ipa: diacritic notation, typically used in polysyllabic languages or languages with fe tone contrasts, tone bars, for finer distinctions. Tones: are mobile, can spread, can be deleted or preserved. Thus far: linear representation: so far, everything is flat, 2-d space, segments are linearized on one level, syllables can be superimposed on the same level, the tone data suggests that there are at least two distinct levels. A feature level or tier: features (autosegments) are sequenced on their own level, association lines connect autosegments and segments.
