15.233, Books: Language Description: Coupe

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Subject: 15.233, Books: Language Description: Coupe

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Date:  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From:  jmanley at coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject:  A phonetic and phonological description of Ao: Coupe

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Date:  Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:27:01 -0500 (EST)
From:  jmanley at coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject:  A phonetic and phonological description of Ao: Coupe

Title: A phonetic and phonological description of Ao
Subtitle: A Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland, north-east India

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/		

Author: Alec R. Coupe

Paperback: ISBN: 0858835193, Pages: xix + 137 pp, Price: AUS$ 36.00
	   Comment: + 10% GST in Australia

Abstract:

The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive description of the
phonetic and phonological features of Ao, a Tibeto-Burman language
spoken in the hill state of Nagaland, north-east India. The
description is primarily based upon the data of three native speakers,
and the language under study is a variety of the Mongsen dialect
spoken in Waromung village, situated in the Mokokchung district.

This is the first extensive acoustic description of a language
belonging to the Kuki-Chin-Naga branch of the Tibeto-Burman
family. The study describes the phonotactic structure, phonology,
articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics and tone system of the
Mongsen dialect of Ao, illustrating how instrumental techniques can be
used to corroborate and quantify the auditory analysis of an
undescribed language. Methodology is described in detail and the
findings are correlated with what is known cross-linguistically about
aspects of the language being investigated.

It is hoped that this work will be of benefit to scholars who wish to
write descriptions of related languages and comparativists who are
interested in clarifying the genetic relationships holding between the
Tibeto-Burman languages of north-east India. It is also hoped that the
monograph will be of relevance to a wider linguistic audience, in
particular typologists and phonologists interested in the study of
phonological systems and the characteristics of tone in less
well-known languages of the region.

Lingfield(s):	Language Description

Subject Language(s):	Naga, Ao (Language code: NJO)

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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