The Role of Language-Specific Phonetics in Contour Tone Distribution: Instrumental Studies

In the previous chapter, we have established that strong licensing positions for contour tones are contrast-specific. This chapter prim arily addresses the different predictions between the direct approach and the contrast-specific positional markedness approach on the comparability of contour tone bearing ability among multiple positions, all of which induce a greater CC0NT0UR value. The predictions of these approaches have been laid out in §3.4. They are recapitulated in (1). Furthermore, we will also see more evidence against the moraic approach.