Recent work in generative phonology has shown that the need to preserve underlying contrast, or to a
Black Miao is the most famous five-level-tone language (reported in Kwan1966), which has been a chal
Languages with independently contrastive Voice Quality and Tone are rare, and the evidence base on t
Ruwund has a set of voiceless and voiced stops in its phonemic inventory. Length measurements reveal
Tima (Niger-Congo, Sudan) has two morphological means to express contrast: focus marking and selecti