Abstract

AbstractSumming up, we may say that the behaviour of tone in Hagu is a most remarkable linguistic phenomenon. It serves, first of all, to distinguish words of different meanings. Then it figures as a means to bring out emphasis and contrast. Then by an ingenious working of tonal laws, it is able to organize syllables of widely different tones into smooth tonal groups, each gathering around its tonic. Finally the tonic lays the foundation for the analysis of syntactical relations. Such, in a few words, is the function of tones in Hagu.

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