Musical surrogate languages in the documentation of complex tone: the case of the Sambla balafon

The Mesoamerican linguistic area is rich with prosodic phenomena, including a wide variety of complex tone, phonation, stress, and intonational systems. The diversity of prosodic patterns in Mesoamerica reflects the extreme time-depth and complex history of the languages spoken there. This chapter surveys the prosody of Mesoamerican languages and some past analyses of their structures. Topics include the areal distribution of tonal complexity; interactions between stress, tone, and segmental contrasts; the phonetics of tone and phonation; metrical structure; and higher-level prosodic phenomena. Case studies from different languages also highlight interactions between morphological and word-prosodic structure. These topics underscore the importance of research on Mesoamerican languages to both phonological theory and linguistic typology.

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Complex tone processing in primary auditory cortex of the awake monkey. II. Pitch versus critical band representation

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.429461 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 108 (1) ◽

pp. 247-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Yonatan I. Fishman ◽

David H. Reser ◽

Joseph C. Arezzo ◽

Mitchell Steinschneider

Keyword(s):

Auditory Cortex ◽

Primary Auditory Cortex ◽

Critical Band ◽

Complex Tone ◽

Awake Monkey

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ERP correlates of pitch error detection in complex Tone and Voice auditory feedback with missing fundamental

Brain Research ◽

10.1016/j.brainres.2012.02.012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1448 ◽

pp. 89-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Roozbeh Behroozmand ◽

Oleg Korzyukov ◽

Charles R. Larson

Keyword(s):

Error Detection ◽

Auditory Feedback ◽

Complex Tone ◽

Pitch Error ◽

Missing Fundamental

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Sources and Images

Voice Leading ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262034852.003.0003 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

David Huron

Keyword(s):

Auditory Perception ◽

Pure Tone ◽

Basilar Membrane ◽

Auditory Scene Analysis ◽

Complex Tone ◽

Scene Analysis ◽

Auditory Stream ◽

Anatomy And Physiology ◽

Auditory Scene ◽

Core Concepts

An introduction to the perception of sound is given, with special emphasis on topics useful for understanding the organization of music. The chapter covers essential concepts in acoustics and auditory perception, including basic auditory anatomy and physiology. Core concepts are defined such as vibrational mode, pure tone, complex tone, partial, harmonic, cochlea, basilar membrane, resolved partial, auditory image, auditory stream, acoustic scene, auditory scene, and auditory scene analysis.

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