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Tone

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General works

• Black, H. Andrew. 1996. "Sketch of autosegmental tonology."
• Black, H. Andrew. 1996. "TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology."
• Black, H. Andrew. 1997. "TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology."  
• Black, H. Andrew. 2007. "TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology."  
• Brend, Ruth M., editor. 1975. Studies in tone and intonation by members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
• Cahill, Michael. 1994. Review of: The phonology of tone: the representation of tonal register, by Harry van der Hulst and Keith Snider, editors.
• Cahill, Michael. 2000. "Tonal associative morphemes in Optimality Theory."
• Cahill, Michael. 2004. Review of: The effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution: a typological survey and formal analysis, by Jie Zhang.
• Cahill, Michael. 2005. Review of: Talking rhythm stressing tone: the role of prominence in Anglo-West African creole languages, by Hubert Devonish.
• Clark, Mary M. 1992. "Representation of downstep in Dschang Bamileke."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1992. "On five-level tone systems."  
• Hajek, John. 2003. "Evidence of tonal activity in Aslian."  
• Hyman, Larry M. 1992. "Register tones and tonal geometry."
• Kompaoré, Anne Garber. 2000. Review of: The structure of tone, by Zhiming Bao.
• Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 1993. "The writing and reading of tone in Bantu languages."
• Ladd, Robert. 1992. "In defense of a metrical theory of intonational downstep."
• Manfredi, Victor. 1992. "Spreading and downstep: Prosodic government in tone languages."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1994. "Tonal contrast on the word level."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1945. Tone languages: The nature of tonemic systems, with a technique for the analysis of their significant pitch contrasts.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1948. Tone languages; a technique for determining the number and type of pitch contrasts in a language, with studies in tonemic substitution and fusion.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1953. "A note on allomorph classes and tonal technique."
• Pike, Kenneth Lee. Created: 1944. Idiomas tonales: la naturaleza de los sistemas tonémicos y técnica del análisis de los contrastes tonales significativos que presentan.
• Pittman, Richard S. 1978. "The explanatory potential of voice-register phonology."  
• Roberts, David. 2008. "Thirty years of tone orthography testing in West African languages (1977-2007)."
• Snider, Keith and Harry van der Hulst. 1992. "Issues in the representation of tonal register."
• Snider, Keith and James Roberts. 2003. "Suggested outline for tone descriptions."
• Snider, Keith. 1999. The geometry and features of tone.
• Snider, Keith. 2003. Review of: Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone, Larry Hyman and Charles W. Kisseberth, editors.
• Snider, Keith. 2004. Review of: Issues in Bantu tonology, Jean Blanchon and Denis Creissels, editors.
• Stewart, John M. 1992. "Dschang and Ebrié as Akan-type total downstep languages."
• Thomas, Paul. 1999. Review of: Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone, Larry M. Hyman and Charles W. Kisseberth, editors.
• van der Hulst, Harry and Keith Snider, editors. 1992. The phonology of tone: The representation of tonal register.
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1995. "Tone orthography and pedagogy."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• Plunkett, Gray C. 1991. The tone system of Foodo nouns.
• Rietkerk, Dieke. 2000. "Tone on Mbelime verbs."
• Roberts, David. 2008. L'orthographe du ton dans les langues béninoises.
• Zürcher, Max and Jacques Nicole. 1983. "Étude préliminaire de la tonologie du ditammari: Remarques basées sur les nominaux."

Burkina Faso

• Anderson, Karen D. 2003. Why Ini can’t read: a miscue analysis of Lobiri, an African tone language.
• Kurrle, Gertrud. 1988. "Some word tone patterns in Nuni."

Cameroon

• Anderson, Stephen C. 1983. Tone and morpheme rules in Ngyemboon-Bamileke.  
• Anderson, Stephen C., editor. 1991. Tone in five languages of Cameroon.  
• Beavon, Keith H. 1984. "Tone and intonation in Konzime."
• Bird, Steven. 1999. "Multidimensional exploration of online linguistic field data."
• Ernst, Urs. 1991. "Description tonologique de l’énoncé nominal associatif en kakɔ."  
• Grebe, Karl and Winnifred Grebe. 1975. "Verb tone patterns in Lamnsok."
• Heath, Daniel. 1991. "Tone in the Makaa associative construction."  
• Mfonyam, Joseph N. 1989. Tone in orthography: The case of Bafut and related languages.
• Mfonyam, Joseph N. 1990. "Tone analysis and tone orthography."
• Patman, Frankie. 1991. "Tone in the Nugunu verb phrase."  
• Spreda, Klaus W. 1986. Tonologie des Metta (Western Grassfields): Eine autosegmentale Beschreibung des einfachen unabhängigen Satzes.
• Swackhamer, Jeanette. 1991. "Tonal behavior of Podoko verbs in independent clauses."  
• Tyhurst, James J. 1985. Tone in Kenyang noun phrases.
• Watters, John R. 1990. "Reduplication and the origin of high tone on noun prefixes in Ejagham."
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1990. "Seven tones or two? Another look at complex tone systems in West Africa."
• Wilkendorf, Patricia. 1991. "Floating high tones in Nɔmaándɛ locatives."  

Chad

• Pearce, Mary Dorothy. 2007. The interaction of tone with voicing and foot structure: evidence from Kera phonetics and phonology.
• Pearce, Mary. 1998/1999. "Consonants and tone in Kera (Chadic)."
• Pearce, Mary. 2005. "Kera tone and voicing."
• Pearce, Mary. 2006. "The interaction between metrical structure and tone in Kera."
• Pearce, Mary. 2007. "Description and theory in the voicing/tone interaction of Kera."  
• Pearce, Mary. 2009. "Kera tone and voicing interaction."

Côte d’Ivoire

• Bearth, Thomas and Christa Link. 1978. "Les tons du wobé: Étude fonctionnelle."
• Bearth, Thomas and Christa Link. 1980. "The tone puzzle of Wobé."
• Bearth, Thomas. 1980. "Is there a universal correlation between pitch and information value?."
• Bearth, Thomas. 1985. Review of: Tonologie: ergebnisse, analysen, vermutungen, by Alfons Weidert.
• Bolli, Margrit. 1978. "Writing tone with punctuation marks."
• Burmeister, J. L. 1980. Tone orthography for Ivory Coast languages.
• Flik, Eva. 1977. "Tone glides and registers in five Dan dialects."
• Gratrix, Carol. 1975. "Morphotonologie du godié."
• Hopkins, Bradley L. 1982. "Étude tonologique du yaouré."
• Hürlimann, Ruth and Eunice V. Pike. 1985. "A note on tone and stress in Cerman."
• Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 1985. "The tones of the Ebrié associative construction."
• Kutsch Lojenga, Constance. 1986. "Some experiences in writing and teaching tone in Africa."
• Meier, Ingeborg. 1983. "Comment écrire les tons de manière simple et satisfaisante: Un apport de la linguistique a un probleme d’alphabétisation."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Black, Cheryl A. 1995. "Boundary tones on word-internal domains in Kinande."
• Kröger, Heidrun. 2003. "O tom nas línguas Bantu."
• Thomas, John P. 1992. "Tone in Komo."

Ethiopia

• Tesfaye, Ashenafi and Klaus Wedekind. 1990. "Characteristics of Omotic tone: Shinasha (Borna)."
• Wedekind, Klaus and Ashenafi Tesfaye. 1994. "Aspects of Omotic tonogenesis: Shinasha."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1983. "A six-tone language in Ethiopia: Tonal analysis of Benč4⁰ non4⁰ (Gimira)."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Thoughts when drawing a map of tone languages."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Why Bench’ (Ethiopia) has five level tones today."

Ghana

• Awedoba, A. K. 1990. "Kasem tones and orthography [includes response from P.L. Hewer]."
• Cahill, Michael. 1985. An autosegmental analysis of Akan nasality and tone.
• Cahill, Michael. 1998. "Tonal polarity in Kɔnni nouns: an optimal theoretical account."
• Cahill, Michael. 2004. "Marked tones and texture - the necessity of high tones in Kɔnni."
• Cahill, Michael. 2004. "Tone polarity in Kɔnni nouns."
• Cahill, Mike. 2001. "Avoiding tone marks: a remnant of English education?."
• Cahill, Mike. 2004. "Tonal polarity in Kɔnni."
• Cahill, Mike. 2007. "More Universals of Tone."  
• Casali, Roderic F. 1994. "Nominal tone in Nawuri."
• Crouch, Marjorie. 1985. "A note on syllable and tone in Vagla verbs."
• Schaefer, Robert L. 1974. "Tone in Gurenne."
• Snider, Keith L. 1988. "Towards the representation of tone: a three-dimensional approach."
• Snider, Keith L. 1990. "Tonal upstep in Krachi: Evidence for a register tier."
• Snider, Keith L. 1990. "Tone in proto-Guang nouns."
• Snider, Keith L. 1992. "‘Grammatical tone’ and orthography."
• Snider, Keith L. 1998. "Phonetic realisation of downstep in Bimoba."
• Snider, Keith. 2007. "Automatic and nonautomatic downstep in Chumburung: an instrumental comparison."

Kenya

• Kröger, Heidrun. 2003. "O tom nas línguas Bantu."

Liberia

• Mugele, Robert and Michael Rodewald. 1991. "Aspects of Bandi tonology."

Mali

• Carlson, Robert. 1983. "Downstep in Supyire."
• Olsen, Elizabeth. 1987. Some aspects of tonal accent in Dogon.

Mozambique

• Kröger, Heidrun. 1999. "Tone in Bantu languages."

Nigeria

• Bendor-Samuel, John T. and Paul E. Meier. 1974. "Izi."
• Bendor-Samuel, John T., editor. 1974. Ten Nigerian tone systems.
• Bergman, Richard and Nancy Bergman. 1984. "Igede."
• Berry, Elaine. 1974. "Yakurr."
• Burquest, Donald A. 1974. "Angas."
• Edmondson, Thomas and John T. Bendor-Samuel. 1966. "Tone patterns of Etung."
• Meier, Ingeborg. 1983. "Comment écrire les tons de manière simple et satisfaisante: Un apport de la linguistique a un probleme d’alphabétisation."
• Meier, Ingeborg. 1983. "Making tone markings acceptable and easy."
• Mohrlang, Roger. 1974. "Higi."
• Newman, John F. and Bonnie Newman. 1974. "Longuda."
• Perrin, Mona. 1974. "Mambila."
• Snider, Keith. 1999. "Tonal ‘upstep’ in Engenni."
• Thomas, Elaine. 1974. "Engenni."
• Van Dyken, Julia. 1974. "Jibu."
• Walker, Stephen P. 1989. "Tonal instability: Tone as part of the feature geometry."
• Watters, John R. 1990. "Reduplication and the origin of high tone on noun prefixes in Ejagham."

Sudan

• Kilpatrick, Eileen and Leoma Gilley. 2004. "The importance of word order in explaining tone patterns in Avokaya verbs."
• Watters, Kathie S. 1993. The status and function of tone in Tira.

Tanzania

• Kröger, Heidrun. 2003. "O tom nas línguas Bantu."

Togo

• Bartels, Eric. 1983. "Le ton en Tchokossi: Des réflections préliminaires."
• Cahill, Mike. 2004. "Tonal polarity in Kɔnni."
• Kohler, Anna. 1983. "Le ton en ifè."
• Meier, Ingeborg. 1983. "Comment écrire les tons de manière simple et satisfaisante: Un apport de la linguistique a un probleme d’alphabétisation."
• Nicole, Jacques. 1980. "Downstepped low tone in Nawdm."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1983. "Quelques suggestions pour les premiers stades d’une analyse linguistique."
• Poidi, Napo. 1987. Phonématique et système tonal du bassar: Une approche descriptive.
• Roberts, David. 2002. Les classes tonales du verbe en kabiyè.
• Roberts, David. 2002. The tone classes of Kabiye verbs.
• Roberts, David. 2003. La tonologie des préfixes de modalité en kabiyè.
• Roberts, David. 2003. The tonology of modal prefixes in Kabiye.
• Roberts, David. 2004. Tonal processes in the Kabiye verb phrase.
• Roberts, David. 2005. "The variable status of nasals as tone bearing units in Kabiyè."
• Roberts, David. 2005. The tone bearing unit in Kabiye: syllable or mora?.
• Roberts, David. 2006. "Double sens, doubles consonnes: une proposition pour effacer des ambiguîtés tonales dans l'orthographe du kabiyè."
• Roberts, David. 2006. "Une idée capitale pour traiter les tons !."
• Roberts, David. 2006. La graphie tonale des langues africaines à la lumière de la psychologie cognitive de la lecture.
• Roberts, David. 2007. Le confectionnement d'une graphie tonale pour le kabiyè.
• Roberts, David. 2008. L'orthographe du ton en kabiyè au banc d'essai.
• Roberts, David. 2008. L'orthographe du ton dans les langues béninoises.
• Roberts, David. 2008. L'orthographe du ton: nouvelles approches méthodologiques.
• Roberts, David. 2009. "Visual crowding and the tone orthography of African languages."
• Russell, Jann M. 1983. "Étude préliminaire des tons du moba."
• Walker, Bonnie and Jacques Nicole. 1983. "Les tons du gangam."
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1989. "Tone analysis in African languages."

Uganda

• Nzogi, Richard. 2009. "Disambiguating grammatical tone in Gwere orthography by using clarifying words."  

Zambia

• Kröger, Heidrun. 2003. "O tom nas línguas Bantu."

Americas

Brazil

• Crofts, Marjorie. 1976. "Must tone always be written in a tonal language?."
• Eberhard, Dave. 2004. "Mamaindé tone: an OT account of plateauing, floating tones, and toneless morphemes in an Amazonian language."  
• Everett, Daniel L. 1980. Review of: Tone: a linguistic survey, Victoria Fromkin, editor.
• Everett, Daniel L. 1981. "Acentuação, tom e silabificação no pirahã."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1969. "Móre tône dialògue."
• Kroeker, Menno H. 1977. "The role of tone in nambikuára."
• Sheldon, Steven N. 1974. "Some morphophonemic and tone perturbation rules in Mura-Pirahã."

Canada

• Pike, Eunice V. 1986. "Tone contrasts in Central Carrier (Athapaskan)."

Colombia

• Malone, Terry. 2006. "Tone and syllable structure in Chimila."

Mexico

• Anderson, Judi Lynn, Isaac H. Martinez, and Wanda Pace. 1990. "Comaltepec Chinantec tone."  
• Bascom, Burton. 1959. "Tonomechanics of Northern Tepehuan."
• Bauernschmidt, Amy. 1965. "Amuzgo syllable dynamics."
• Black, Cheryl A. 2005. "An autosegmental analysis of Meˀphaa (Tlapanec) noun inflection."
• Buck, Marjorie J. 1973. "Lesson in reading tone."
• Daly, John P. 1973. "Los cambios tonales del Mixteco de Peñoles."
• Daly, John P. 1977. "A problem in tone analysis."  
• Daly, John P. 1978. "Notes on Diuxi Mixtec tone."
• Daly, John P. 1992. "Phonetic interpretation of tone features in Peñoles Mixtec."
• Daly, John P. 1993. "The role of tone sandhi in tone analysis."
• Gardner, Richard and William R. Merrifield. 1990. "Quiotepec Chinantec tone."  
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1959. "Huichol tone and intonation."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. "Toneme representation in Mazatec orthography."
• Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1969. "Móre tône dialògue."
• Herzog, Dorothy L. 1949. Review of: Tone languages; a technique for determining the number and type of pitch contrasts in a language, with studies in tonemic substitution and fusion, by Kenneth L. Pike.
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1984. "Copala Trique tone and universal tone features."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1984. The phonology and morphology of tone and laryngeals in Copala Trique.
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1988. "The asymetrical distribution of tone in Copala Trique."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 2003. "The historical source of an irregular Mixtec tone-sandhi pattern."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 2007. "Tone languages and language (un)awareness."  
• Hollenbach, Elena Erickson de. Available: 2005; Created: 2004-05. Los tonos del mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco.  
• Jamieson, Allan R. 1977. "Chiquihuitlan Mazatec tone."  
• Leal, Mary. 1950. "Patterns of tone substitution in Zapotec morphology."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1952. "Five phonemic pitch levels in Trique."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1959. "Trique tone morphemics."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1970. "An experiment in testing the reading of Trique without indication of tone."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1975. "The tone system of Proto-Mixtecan."
• Mak, Cornelia. 1950. "A unique tone perturbation in Mixteco."
• Mak, Cornelia. 1958. "The tonal system of a third Mixtec dialect."
• Marks, Donna. 1976. Zapotec verb morphology: Categories and tonomechanics, with special attention to Sierra Juarez Zapotec.
• Merrifield, William R. and Calvin R. Rensch, editors. 1990. Syllables, tone, and verb paradigms: Studies in Chinantec languages 4.  
• Mugele, Robert L. 1974. "Teaching tone: An indigenous method."
• Nelson, Julia Louise. 2004. Tone and glottalization in San Juan Mixtepec Zapotec.
• Pace, Wanda. 1977. Comaltepec Chinantec verb inflection.
• Pace, Wanda. 1990. "Comaltepec Chinantec verb inflection."  
• Pike, Eunice V. 1948. "Problems in Zapotec tone analysis."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1951. "Tonemic-intonemic correlation in Mazahua (Otomi)."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1956. "Tonally differentiated allomorphs in Soyaltepec Mazatec."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1984. "Some universals of tone and allotones."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1992. "A description of various tone systems."
• Pike, Eunice V. 1992. "Analysis of tone systems."
• Pike, Eunice V. and Kent Wistrand. 1974. "Step-up terrace tone in Acatlán Mixtec (Mexico)."
• Pike, Eunice V. and Priscilla C. Small. 1974. "Downstepping terrace tone in Coatzospan Mixtec."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1945. "Tone puns in Mixteco."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1946. "Another Mixteco tone pun."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1946. "Phonemic pitch in Maya."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1946. "The flea: melody types and perturbations in a Mixtec song."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1982. "Tune and tone: Generalized syntagmatic pitch patterns constrained by particular lexical patterns."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1992. "An autobiographical note on my experience with tone languages."
• Pike, Kenneth L. and Eunice V. Pike. 1947. "Immediate constituents of Mazateco syllables."
• Pike, Kenneth L. and Milton Warkentin. 1961. "Huave: a study in syntactic tone with low lexical functional load."
• Pride, Leslie. 1963. "Chatino tonal structure."
• Pride, Leslie. 1984. "Chatino: Tono y contraste en la penúltima sílaba en Tataltepec."
• Pride, Leslie. 1984. "Tone contrasts on the penultimate syllable in Tataltepec Chatino."  
• Sinclair, Donald and Kenneth L. Pike. 1948. "The tonemes of Mezquital Otomi."
• Speck, Charles H. 1978. "Texmelucan Zapotec suprasegmental phonology."
• Stark, Sharon and Polly Machin. 1977. "Stress and tone in Tlacoyalco Popoloca."  
• Williams, Cindy. 2005. "An analysis of Amuzgo nominal tone."
• Wonderly, William L. 1948. Review of: Tone languages; a technique for determining the number and type of pitch contrasts in a language, with studies in tonemic substitution and fusion, by Kenneth L. Pike.

Peru

• Payne, David L. 1989. "Extrametricalidad y acento tonal en el aguaruna."
• Weber, David and Wesley Thiesen. 2001. "A synopsis of Bora tone."  
• Weber, David and Wesley Thiesen. 2003. "Una sinopsis del tono bora."

Asia

Cambodia

• Wayland, Ratree P. and Guion, Susan G. 2005. "Sound changes following the loss of /r/ in Khmer: a new tonogenetic mechanism?."  

China

• Allen, Bryan and Silvia Allen. 1997. "Baiyu xizhouzhen hua shengdiao de ceshi fenxi."
• Dai, Quingxia and Liu Yan. 1997. "Analysis of the tones in the Guangka subdialect of Deʼang."  
• Denlinger, Paul B. 1981. "Tibetan and Mon-Khmer: a short communication."
• Eatough, Andy. 1996. "Meigu County Yi tone."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1996. "Bolyu tone in Vietic perspective."  
• Hari, Maria. 1979. An investigation of the tones of Lhasa Tibetan.
• Hashimoto, Mantaro J. 1981. "A phonological characterization of syllabic intonations in the so-called tone languages."
• Maddieson, Ian and Keng-Fong Pang. 1993. "Tone in Utsat."
• Pelkey, Jamin R. 2007. "Muji's mirrored merger: correlative redistribution of checked tone classes in a newly defined Burmic cluster."  
• Snyder, Donna Marie. 1995. Variation in Bouyei.
• Snyder, Wil C. and Lu Tianqiao. 1997. "Wuming Zhuang tone sandhi: a phonological, syntactic, and lexical investigation."
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2001. "Tonogenesis in Khmu dialects of SEA."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects."  
• Thurgood, Graham. 1993. "Phan Rang Cham and Utsat: Tonogenetic themes and variants."
• Wei Feng and Jerold A. Edmondson. 1997. "The tonal cylinder in Sanfang Zhuang."
• Wu Wenyi, Wil C. Snyder and Liang Yongshu. 2007. Survey of the Guizhou Bouyei Language.  

India

• Baart, Joan. 2005. "Tone and stress in Northwest Indo-Aryan [abstract]."

Indonesia

• Bateman, Janet. 1990. "Iau segmental and tone phonology."

Laos

• Person, Kirk R. 1998. "Voice quality and tone in several Lao dialects."
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2001. "Tonogenesis in Khmu dialects of SEA."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects."  

Myanmar

• Walker, Stephen P. 1989. "Tonal instability: Tone as part of the feature geometry."

Nepal

• Bieri, Dora and Marlene Schulze. 1971. A guide to Sunwar tone.
• Glover, Warren W. 1970. "Gurung tone and higher levels."
• Glover, Warren W. and Jessie R. Glover. 1972. A guide to Gurung tone.
• Gordon, Kent. 1970. "Sherpa tone and higher levels."
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 2: Lexical lists and comparative studies.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 3: Texts 1.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 1: Studies on tone and phonological segments.
• Hale, Austin and Kenneth L. Pike, editors. 1970. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 4: Texts 2.
• Hale, Austin and Warren W. Glover. 1970. "A note on glides, syllabicity and tone in Gurung."
• Hari, Maria. 1979. An investigation of the tones of Lhasa Tibetan.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1970. "The role of nuclei of feet in the analysis of tone in Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal."
• Schöttelndreyer, Burkhard. 1975. "Vowels and tone in the Sherpa verb."
• Schöttelndreyer, Burkhard. 1980. "Glides in Sherpa."
• Schöttelndreyer, Burkhard. 1980. "Vowel and tone patterns in the Sherpa verb."
• Schöttelndreyer, Heiderose. 1971. A guide to Sherpa tone.
• Walker, Stephen P. 1989. "Tonal instability: Tone as part of the feature geometry."
• Watters, David E. 1971. A guide to Kham tone.
• Watters, David E. 1985. "Emergent word tone in Kham: a Tibeto-Burman halfway house."
• Watters, Stephen A. 1999. "Tonal contrasts in Sherpa."
• Watters, Stephen. 2003. "An acoustic look at pitch in Lhomi."

Pakistan

• Baart, Joan L. G. 1999. "Tone rules in Kalam Kohistani (Garwi, Bashkarik)."
• Baart, Joan L. G. 2003. "Contrastive tone in Kalam Kohistani."
• Baart, Joan L. G. 2003. "Tonal features in languages of northern Pakistan."
• Baart, Joan L. G. 2004. "Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan)."
• Baart, Joan. 2005. "Tone and stress in Northwest Indo-Aryan [abstract]."

Thailand

• Chommanad Intajamornrak and Theraphan L.-Thongkum. 2009. "Tonal evolution induced by language contact: a case study of the T'in (Lua') language of Nan province, northern Thailand."  
• Paulsen, Debbie. 1996. "Tone and intonation in Plang."
• Person, Kirk R. and Suzanne R. Person. 1996. "Write that tone! language preservation issues in everyday attempts to write Northern Thai tones using Central Thai script."
• Saurman, Mary E. 1999. "The agreement of Thai speech tones and melodic pitches."
• Siripen Ungsitipoonporn. 2009. "The Bangkok Hakka phonology."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2001. "Tonogenesis in Khmu dialects of SEA."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects."  
• Tumtavitikul, Apiluck. 1994. "Perhaps, the tones are in the consonants?."  
• Wanna Tienmee. 1992. "Classification by tone shapes and by patterns of tonal splits and coalescences."  

Viet Nam

• Brunelle, Marc. 2005. "Register and tone in Eastern Cham: evidence from a word game."  
• Donaldson, Jean. 1963. "A study of the ‘nặng’ tone in the northern dialect of Vietnamese."
• Friberg, Timothy, Barbara Friberg, and Richard S. Pittman. 1974. "More on the generation of tones from registers (Part II)."
• Gradin, Dwight. 1966. "Consonantal tone in Jeh phonemics."  
• Gregerson, Kenneth J. and David D. Thomas. 1976. "Vietnamese hỏi and ngã tones and Mon-Khmer -h finals."  
• Nguyen Van Loi and Jerold A. Edmondson. 1998. "Tones and voice quality in modern northern Vietnamese: Instrumental case studies."  
• Nguyẽ̂n, Anh-Thư T. and John C. L. Ingram. 2007. "Stress and tone sandhi in Vietnamese reduplications."  
• Pelkey, Jamin R. 2007. "Muji's mirrored merger: correlative redistribution of checked tone classes in a newly defined Burmic cluster."  
• Phu Van Han, Jerold A. Edmondson, and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1992. "Eastern Cham as a tone language."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2001. "Tonogenesis in Khmu dialects of SEA."  
• Suwilai Premsrirat. 2004. "Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects."  
• Taylor, Harvey M. 1962. "A phonetic description of the tones of the Hue dialect of Vietnamese."
• Thurgood, Graham. 1993. "Phan Rang Cham and Utsat: Tonogenetic themes and variants."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Bee, Darlene and Kathleen B. Glasgow. 1962. "Usarufa tone and segmental phonemes."
• Frantz, Chester I. and Marjorie Frantz. 1966. "Gadsup phoneme and toneme units."
• Frantz, Marjorie and Barry S. Irwin. 1968. "A tone dialogue."
• James, Dorothy J. 1994. "Word tone in a Papuan language: An autosegmental solution."
• Lloyd, Joy A. 1997. "Contrastive and grammatically defined tone in Baruya."
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