No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization two closely related topics
in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both.The articles collected in
this volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and neutralization including
post-lexical neutralization which represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a
whole covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia Africa and Europe with a
main focus on Asian languages dialects many of which are endangered now. In addition to
presenting novel data and analyses about individual languages it provides typological
perspectives on tonal change and neutralization.This volume will serve as an indispensable
source of data and analyses for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics phonology
prosody historical linguistics language typology endangered languages Japanese linguistics
and Chinese linguistics.
