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| Malayo Polynesian Languages | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRemijsen, Bert – Language and Speech, 2001
Discusses dialectal variation in the lexical tone system of Ma'ya, an Austronesian language featuring three lexically contrastive tonemes. Representative acoustic data were collected from the Missol, Slawati, and Laganyan dialects, and on the basis of these data, an account is given of their tone systems and of how these tone systems compare to…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Variation
