Typology of Tone Loss in Haloze, Slovenia: An Acoustic and Autosegmental Analysis

The paper presents and acoustical analysis of pitch contour on accented syllables in Haloze microsialects and a comparative examination of other instrumental sutdis of pitch in selected South Slavic dialects. Based on these analyses, an atttempt is made to place Haloze within a typology of tone loss which functions on autosebmental principles and is morivated by language contact.