sociotonetics

English

Etymology

From socio- +‎ tonetics, modelled after sociophonetics.

Noun

sociotonetics (uncountable)

  1. (sociolinguistics, phonetics) The sociophonetics 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:
      In addition to the specific results of this Sui dialect contact investigation, this study has modeled acoustic sociotonetics, providing methodology for future research.
    • 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:
      Located at the intersection of sociotonetics and research of multilingualism, this paper explores a critically understudied phenomenon, multilingual variation in prosody involving two contacting African tonal languages, Mano, or Manon [iso 639-3:mev] and Kpelle, or Guerzé [iso 639-3:gkp], based on both manual annotation and automatic f0 extraction from semi-spontaneous data.
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