Principles of Tone Research

Current advances in tone research are rather uneven. The major obstacles to faster progress in the area are not in the lack of technological means, but in the mindset of our discipline. This paper discusses ways to improve tone research by considering a set of basic principles both in research methodology and in theoretical thinking.

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