Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe sociophonetics of lexical tones.
In addition to the specific results of this Sui dialect contact investigation, this study has modeled acoustic sociotonetics, providing methodology for future research.
2008, James N. Stanford, “A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 20, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 4101 more example
Located at the intersection of sociotonetics and research of multilingualism, this paper explores a critically understudied phenomenon, multilingual variation in prosody involving two contacting African tonal languages, Mano, or Manon [iso 639-3:mev] and Kpelle, or Guerzé [iso 639-3:gkp], based on both manual annotation and automatic f₀ extraction from semi-spontaneous data.
2024, Maria Konoshenko, Maria Khachaturyan, “Final lowering in contacting African tone languages: A study of variation in postlexical prosody”, in Mattias Heldner, Marcin Wlodarczak, Christine Ericsdotter Nordgren, Carla Wikse Barrow, editors, Proceedings from FONETIK 2024, Stockholm: Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, →ISBN, page 173
Origin
From socio- + tonetics, modelled after sociophonetics.
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