Meaning of sociotonetic | Babel Free

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Relating to the sociophonetic variation of lexical tones.

Examples

“Therefore, the overall results of the acoustic sociotonetic analysis in the current study concur with Sui folk understanding, and they also concur with studies of lexical variables and diphthong variables (Stanford, 2007, 2008), which find that immigrant Sui women maintain their original clanlects very accurately.”

“The study aims to make a contribution to the acoustic sociotonetic study of lexical tones of S. Pa-O, an under-studied language of the Sino-Tibetan family.”

“This paper explores a critically understudied phenomenon, multilingual sociotonetic variation involving two contacting African tonal languages, Guinean Mano and Guinean Kpelle.”

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