| Lemma | tone language |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | contour (inglese) distribution (inglese) language (inglese) one-vowel-long tone (inglese) phonemic tone (inglese) redivision (inglese) rephonemicization (inglese) tone (inglese) toneme (inglese) utterance-long intonation (inglese) vowel (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The redivision of tone-bearing vowels into separate vowel phonemes and tone phonemes may be considered a special case of this rephonemicization. This is done in ‘tone languages’, where the sequences of tones do not show a limited number of contours […]. Languages in which such independent distributions of differently pitched vowels occur are called tone languages […]. |