9 Citations
Syntactic Variation in Different Styles of Tai Phake Songs
- Linguistics
- 2010
In this paper we explore the differences in syntactic structures between three types of Tai Phake songs, two traditional genres and one modern genre. Tai Phake (Tai Kadai/South Western Tai) is a tone…
Studying tones in North East India :
- Linguistics
- 2014
Drawing on nearly 20 years of study of a variety of languages in North East India, from the Tai and Tibeto-Burman families, this paper examines the issues involved in studying those languages,…
Studying Tones in North East India: Tai, Singpho and Tangsa.
- Linguistics
- 2014
Drawing on nearly 20 years of study of a variety of languages in North East India, from the Tai and Tibeto-Burman families, the issues involved in studying those languages are examined.
A method comparison analysis examining the relationship between linguistic tone, melodic tune, and sung performances of children’s songs in Chicahuaxtla Triqui: Findings and implications for documentary linguistics and indigenous language communities
- Linguistics
- 2020
Linguistic tones play an important role in expressing lexical and grammatical meaning in tone languages. A small change in the pitch of a word can result in an entirely different meaning. A logical…
Tone–Melody Matching in tone-Language Singing
- LinguisticsThe Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
- 2020
Singing in tone languages has been the subject of a good deal of research, which shows that text-setting constraints are the heart of the solution to respecting both the linguistic and the musical…
Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs
- Linguistics
- 2018
Abstract:This article explores the relationship between linguistic tone and musical melody in Tommo So, a Dogon language of Mali. Most fundamentally, contrary mappings (rising tone on falling music,…
Microtonal Variation in Sung Cantonese
- LinguisticsPhonetica
- 2018
Cantonese singers use microtonal contours to reflect rising contours of Cantonese linguistic tones, which are observed when singing syllables with lexical rising tones.
Tone in speech and singing: a field experiment to research their relation in endangered languages of North East India
- Linguistics
- 2013
Cite this article: Stephen Morey, Jürgen Schöpf (2012). Tone in speech and singing: a field experiment to research their relation in endangered languages of North East India. In Niclas Burenhult,…