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The EVOTONE project aims to understand the emergence and evolution of linguistic tone through a comprehensive study of various languages. By combining phonetic analysis and computational methods, it seeks to uncover the principles governing tonal systems and their changes over time.
This project will investigate the origins, acquisition, and evolution of linguistic tone: the use of pitch to distinguish between the meaning of words.
Despite the typological ubiquity of tone, there is still no phonetic, structural, or psychological model that explains how and why tones emerge (or fail to emerge) in language after language, nor how they evolve once they are formed.
This is because there has never been a systematic analysis of the principles that govern the evolution of tone sys…
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
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United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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