Haskins Publications

Number	1594
Year	2009
Drawer	27
Entry Date	06/01/2010
Authors	Abramson, A.S.
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Publication	Frontiers in Phonetics and Speech Science, (Eds.) G. Fant, H. Fujisaki, J. Shen, 2009. The Commercial Press, pp. 149-155.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1594.pdf
Abstract	A pure case in which tone uses only pitchfor phonological distinctions, while voice register uses only phonation type for the same purpose, is fairly rare. More often than not we see pitch combined with phonation types and other properties in phonemic tones and phonation types combined with pitch and other properties in registers. Many a language traditionally classified as one or the other seems to be more of a hybrid of the two. Furthermore, phonation type is probably a stage in tonogenesis. The worth of a sharp typological distinction is surely in doubt.
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