New publication on Ao, Nagaland

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

A phonetic and phonological description of Ao:  A Tibeto-Burman
language of Nagaland, north-east India
A.R Coupe

This work is described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.77).

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A phonetic and phonological description of Ao:  A Tibeto-Burman
language of Nagaland, north-east India
A.R Coupe

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.


PL 543, 2003    ISBN 0 85883 519 3       xix + 137 pp
Australia A$39.60  (inc GST)    International A$36.00
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