Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jarvikivi J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2935883 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Järvikivi Juhani J Vainio Martti M Aalto Daniel D
PloS one 20100908 9
Discrete phonological phenomena form our conscious experience of language: continuous changes in pitch appear as distinct tones to the speakers of tone languages, whereas the speakers of quantity languages experience duration categorically. The categorical nature of our linguistic experience is directly reflected in the traditionally clear-cut linguistic classification of languages into tonal or non-tonal. However, some evidence suggests that duration and pitch are fundamentally interconnected a ...[more]