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sociotonetics

sociotonetics noun: the sociophonetics of lexical tones.

Noun

sociotonetics (uncountable)

  1. The sociophonetics of lexical tones.
    • In addition to the specific results of this Sui dialect contact investigation, this study has modeled acoustic sociotonetics, providing methodology for future research.2008, James N. Stanford, “A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 20, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 410
    • Located at the intersection of sociotonetics and research of multilingualism, this paper explores a critically understudied phenomenon, multilingual variation in prosody involving two contacting African tonal languages, Mano, or Manon [iso 639-3:mev] and Kpelle, or Guerzé [iso 639-3:gkp], based on...2024, Maria Konoshenko, Maria Khachaturyan, “Final lowering in contacting African tone languages: A study of variation in postlexical prosody”, in Mattias Heldner, Marcin Wlodarczak, Christine...

Origin of sociotonetics

From socio- + tonetics, modelled after sociophonetics.

Questions about sociotonetics

What does sociotonetics mean?
Sociotonetics means the sociophonetics of lexical tones.
What part of speech is sociotonetics?
Sociotonetics is a noun.

Words near sociotonetics in the dictionary

  1. sociotherapies
  2. sociotherapist
  3. sociotherapists
  4. sociotherapy
  5. sociotonetic
  6. sociotonetics
  7. sociotope
  8. sociotopes
  9. sociotopographic
  10. sociotopography
  11. sociotropic

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