'African' tone in the Sinosphere

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-490

  Evans, Jonathan P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Floating tone; Qiang; Tibeto Burman; Tone typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849125583     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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