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The Unified Model of Tone

The References

Every source the model stands on.

252 entries · By Dr. Jason Dulberg

Every finding cited in the model is listed here in the order the model cites it, with a link to the original. No researcher named in this work has proposed tone as the model defines it, and none is enlisted to endorse it. Each is cited for what their own work established.

The complete list
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