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Download or read book The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles written by Ondřej Slówik and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this monograph is to describe differences in tone realization and perception between two major Vietnamese dialects: Hanoian and Saigonese. The monograph contains a thorough overview of the principal background concepts concerning the lexical function of pitch patterns in the language. The core analyses are based on an extensive sample of several thousand instances of tones for each dialect, and they also address possible effects of speaking style, phrasal prominence and coarticulatory dynamism.