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This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong's colonial history
alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to
manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality. Drawing together
scholars, critics, commentators, and creators on the vanguard of
the emerging field of Hong Kong Studies, the essay volume presents
a gyroscopic perspective that discerns what is made in from what is
made into Hong Kong while weaving a patchwork of the territory's
contested local imaginary. This collection celebrates as it
critiques the current state of Hong Kong society on the 20th
anniversary of its handover to China. The gyroscopic outlook of the
volume makes it a true area studies book-length treatment of Hong
Kong, and a key and interdisciplinary read for students and
scholars wishing to explore the territory's complexities.
This book examines how in navigating Hong Kong's colonial history
alongside its ever-present Chinese identity, the city has come to
manifest a conflicting socio-cultural plurality. Drawing together
scholars, critics, commentators, and creators on the vanguard of
the emerging field of Hong Kong Studies, the essay volume presents
a gyroscopic perspective that discerns what is made in from what is
made into Hong Kong while weaving a patchwork of the territory's
contested local imaginary. This collection celebrates as it
critiques the current state of Hong Kong society on the 20th
anniversary of its handover to China. The gyroscopic outlook of the
volume makes it a true area studies book-length treatment of Hong
Kong, and a key and interdisciplinary read for students and
scholars wishing to explore the territory's complexities.
The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological
patterning that unveils structures beyond differences in pitch
heights and contour profiles. Following an introduction on tone's
ability to express lexical and grammatical contrasts, Section 2
explains that phonetically, fundamental frequency profiles make for
the best descriptors. From these descriptions, Section 3 explains
how, through postulations of subatomic entities that comprise
tones, a language's tone inventory can be quite symmetrical. In
looking at tone's independence from the syllable and segments,
Section 4 establishes tone as an autosegment. Sections 5, 6, and 7
go on to discuss a myriad of complexities where tones interact with
one another and with other phonological entities. Here, the authors
offer a suggestion on how some of these interactions can be
captured within the same analytical umbrella. Section 8 then peeks
into tone's phonological properties through music and poetry.
From the physiology and acoustics to their patterning across human
languages, tone is one of the fundamental constructs in human
languages that is also among the hardest to apprehend. Drawing upon
a large number of languages around the world, this volume explores
the concept of tone starting from its physical properties of
articulation and acoustics to its manifestation in phonology.
Designed as a comprehensive study accessible to the novice and
useful for the expert, each chapter covers a particular aspect of
tone in increasing depth and complexity, weaving together key
concepts and theories that provide complementing or competing
accounts of tone's phonological intricacies. In the process, one
uncovers the underlying laws and principles that inform today's
understanding of the subject to form a more synthesized view that
also allows us to explore the relation of tone to other important
areas of humanity such as literature, history, music and cognition.
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