Meaning of sociotonetic | Babel Free

Definitions

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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