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A. Raymond Elliott – Language Documentation & Conservation, 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 question for those who document tone languages is whether or not singers preserve linguistic tone when singing and if so, to what degree? I begin by…
Descriptors: Language Research, Intonation, Music, Singing
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Caldecott, Marion; Koch, Karsten – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
Prosody plays a vital role in communication, but is one of the most widely neglected topics in language documentation. This omission is doubly detrimental since intonation is unrecoverable from transcribed texts, the most prevalent data sources for many indigenous languages. One of the underlying reasons for the dearth of prosodic data is…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Indigenous Populations