Summary Details
| Query: |
Unmarked Contour Tone
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| Author: | Joaquim de Carvalho | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonology
Typology |
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| Summary: |
I've received six messages so far. Thanks to the people who responded:
Mark Donohue Mike Cahill Bart Mathias Toby Paff John E. Koontz Stavros Skopeteas Here is a brief summary of the replies: Three points seem to appear from these messages, though, of course, the one in (1) still lacks extensive empirical support: 1) Concerning languages where contour tones are not limited to long nuclei (typically eastern Asian languages, but also, as pointed out by Mark Donohue, Skou, New Guinea), if there is only one contour tone, this tone shows a falling melody (see Donohue's and Cahill's postings). 2) This (hypothetical) implicational statement does not run for languages where contour tones suppose bimoraic nuclei and/or (pitch) stress (see the last replies). In these languages, the contour might be predictable in such and such environment, but its shape may vary within the same language, and, if it does not, it may be a rising contour as well as a falling one depending on the language. 3) However, given bimoraicity and stress, it is not sure that such languages can be shown to display the ternary tonal paradigm (H / L / contour tone) I had in mind, which is more clearly illustrated by type (1). Once again, many thanks for your responses. Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho Departement de linguistique Universite Paris 8 / UMR 7023 jbrandao@ext.jussieu.fr |
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| LL Issue: | 16.642 | |
| Date Posted: | 04-Mar-2005 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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