Pitch Accent - Summer Semester 2017
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Description: Pitch accent languages are in some sense hybrids between word-stress and lexical tone systems, and are among the most controversial prosodic systems in current theoretical phonology and typology (see e.g. Hyman 2009). In this course we discuss a wide variety of different systems which have been labeled as pitch-accent (e.g. so-called restricted-tone languages in Bantu, pitch-accent in Indoeuropean, and the Japanese system), and the major theoretical approaches.
Block 1: Theories
- The Original Autosegmental Pitch Accent Theory: Haraguchi (1975)
- Pitch Accent as Tone: Pulleyblank (1986) (de Lacy 2002)
- Pitch Accent as Stress: Halle & Vergnaud (1987a,b)
- Pitch Accent and Dominance: Inkelas (1998)
- Pitch Accent as Intonation: Hayes & Lahiri (1991), Beckman & Pierrehumbert (1986)
- Pitch Accent as OT-Faithfulness and Antifaithfulness: Alderete (2001a,b)
- Pitch Accent and Heads: Revithiadou (1999)
Block 2: Languages
- Japanese: McCawley (1968), Poser (1984), Alderete (2001c), Uwano (2012) (Haraguchi 1975)
- Tonga: Goldsmith (1984) (Pulleyblank 1986)
- Haya: Hyman & Byarushengo (1984)
- Lithuanian: Blevins (1993), Halle & Vergnaud (1987b)
- Serbian: Inkelas & Zec (1988), Zec (1992,1999)
- Russian: Dubina (2012), Halle & Vergnaud (1987b)
- Raramuri/Basque: Spahr (2016)
- Franconian: Köhnlein (2013,2016)
- Mende: Vydrin (2016), Green (2010)
- Somali: Hyman (1981)
Literature
- Alderete, John (2001a) Root-controlled accent in Cupeno. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19:455-501.
- Alderete, John (2001b) Dominance Effects as Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness. Phonology 18: 201-253.
- Alderete, John (2001c) Morphologically governed accent in Optimality Theory. Routledge publishing series, Outstanding dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.
- Beckman, M. & Pierrehumbert, J. (1986) Intonational Structure in Japanese and English. Phonology Yearbook 3:15-70.
- Blevins, J. (1993) A Tonal Analysis of Lithuanian Nominal Accent. Language 69(2): 237-273.
- de Lacy, P. (2002) The interaction of tone and stress in Optimality Theory. Phonology 19:1-32
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Dubina, A. (2012) Towards a Tonal Analysis of Free Stress. PhD thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
- Goldsmith, John (1984) Tone and Accent in Tonga. In Clements, George N. and Goldsmith, J. (eds.), Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, 19-52. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Green, C. R. (2010) Prosodic Phonology In Bamana (Bambara): Syllable Complexity, Metrical Structure, And Tone. PhD thesis, Indiana University.
- Halle, M. & Vergnaud, J.-R. (1987a) Stress and the Cycle. Linguistic Inquiry 18(1):45-84.
- Halle, M. & Vergnaud, J.-R. (1987b) An Essay On Stress. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
- Haraguchi, Shosuke. 1975. The tone pattern of Japanese: An autosegmental theory of tonology. PhD thesis, MIT.
- Hayes, B. & Lahiri, A. (1991) Bengali intonational phonology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9:47-96.
- Hyman, Larry M. & Ernest Rugwa Byarushengo (1984) A model of Haya tonology. In G. N. Clements & John Goldsmith (eds), Autosegmental studies in Bantu tone, 53-103. Dordrecht: Foris.
- Hyman, L. M. (1981) Tonal accent in Somali. Studies in African Linguistics 12(2):169-203.
- Inkelas, S. (1998) The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology: a case study from dominance. Yearbook of Morphology 1997:121-155.
- Inkelas, Sharon & Draga Zec (1988) Serbo-croatian pitch accent: the interaction of tone, stress and intonation.
Linguistics 64, 227-248.
- Köhnlein, B. (2013) Optimizing the relation between tone and prominence: Evidence from Franconian, Scandinavian, and Serbo-Croatian tone accent systems. Lingua 131:1-28.
- Köhnlein, B. (2016) Contrastive foot structure in Franconian tone-accent dialects. Phonology 33:87-123.
- Spahr, C. E. (2016) Contrastive representations in non-segmental phonology. PhD thesis, University of Toronto.
- McCawley, James D. (1968) The phonological component of a grammar of Japanese. The Hague: Mouton.
- Poser, William (1984) The phonetics and phonology of tone and intonation in Japanese. Cambridge MA: MIT dissertation.
- Pulleyblank, D. (1986) Tone in Lexical Phonology. Dordrecht: Reidel.
- Revithiadou, A. (1999) Headmost Accent Wins: Head Dominance and Ideal Prosodic Form in Lexical Accent Systems. PhD thesis, Leiden. (http://www.lit.auth.gr/revithiadou/publications.html)
- Uwano, Z. (2012) Three types of accent kernels in Japanese. Lingua 122:1415-1440.
- Vydrin, Valentin (2016) Tonal inflection in Mande languages: The cases of Bamana and Dan-Gwɛɛtaa. In: Palancar, Enrique L., Léonard, Jean Léo (eds.) Tone and Inflection: New facts and new perspectives, De Gruyter, 83-105
- Zec, Draga (1992) The cyclicity of a tonal rule. Chicago Linguistic Society 28:2, 303-315.
- Zec, Draga (1999) Footed tones and tonal feet: rhythmic constituency in a pitch-accent language. Phonology 16,
225-264.
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Jochen Trommer
Institut für Linguistik
Universität Leipzig
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