sociotonetic

English

Etymology

From socio- +‎ tonetic, modelled after sociophonetic.

Adjective

sociotonetic (comparative more sociotonetic, superlative most sociotonetic)

  1. (sociolinguistics, phonetics) Relating to the sociophonetic variation of lexical tones.
    • 2008, James N. Stanford, “A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 20, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 410:
      Therefore, the overall results of the acoustic sociotonetic analysis in the current study concur with Sui folk understanding, and they also concur with studies of lexical variables and diphthong variables (Stanford, 2007, 2008), which find that immigrant Sui women maintain their original clanlects very accurately.
    • 2015, Sujinat Jitwiriyanont, “Gender Variation in Acoustic Characteristics of Southern Pa-O Lexical Tones”, in Manusya: Journal of Humanities, volume 18, number 2, →DOI, page 73:
      The study aims to make a contribution to the acoustic sociotonetic study of lexical tones of S. Pa-O, an under-studied language of the Sino-Tibetan family.
    • 2024, Maria Konoshenko, Maria Khachaturyan, “Final lowering in contacting African tone languages: A study of variation in postlexical prosody”, in Mattias Heldner, Marcin Wlodarczak, Christine Ericsdotter Nordgren, Carla Wikse Barrow, editors, Proceedings from FONETIK 2024, Stockholm: Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, →ISBN, page 173:
      This paper explores a critically understudied phenomenon, multilingual sociotonetic variation involving two contacting African tonal languages, Guinean Mano and Guinean Kpelle.
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