Abstract
This chapter describes tonal features of Halh Mongolian. Mongolian belongs to edge-prominence languages: Halh speakers either use available boundary tones or insert a tonal boundary for different pragmatic meanings. Most tonal variation occurs utterance finally, while phrasing and focusing are signaled phrase initially at the left edge of prosodic units.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Prosodic typology II : the phonology of intonation and phrasing |
| Editors | Jun Sun-Ah |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 187-215 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0199567300 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Bibliographical note
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics