How (not) to do phonological typology: the case of pitch-accent

Language Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 213-238

  Hyman, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culminativity; Metrical structure pitch accent; Privativity; Stress; Tonal density; Tone; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449092654     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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