Dear Tibeto-Burmanists and affiliated colleagues:<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for these responses, which have provided me with plenty of detailed information and references regarding S-T and other SEA (and even beyond, perhaps?) checked tone-type phenomena. The responses have also highlighted the reality that 'checked tone' (not truly synonymous with 'entering tone') potentially has a number of different specific operationalizations, depending on individual languages/lg. clusters, contexts of application, and other factors like phonetic manifestation, synchronic phonological representation and also diachrony, for example. As Martine Mazaudon noted in her response, this potential for variation in definition and application for this concept does seem to underscore the need for that little footnote with a precise (analysis-specific?) definition!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes and I look forward to seeing many of you in Singapore next month,<br clear="all">
<div><br></div>-- <br>Orche<br>('Thanks' in Manange)<div><br><i>Kristine A. Hildebrandt</i><br><i>Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature<br>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</i><div>
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