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SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE AND TONE GEBUNDEN

This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The
contributions address  among other things  the following basic questions: what tone-segment
interactions exist  and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are
interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of
tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony
and synchrony in relevant processes?The contributions discuss data from various types of
languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role  from 'pure' tone
languages to so-called tone accent systems  where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies
is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian
dialects in the Netherlands  Belgium and Germany  but also discusses languages as diverse as
Slovenian  Livonian  Fuzhou Chinese  and Xhosa.

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