The Phonology and Phonetics of Tone - Summer Semester 2020

Module 04-046-2014 • Suprasegmental Phonology • Seminar 1 • Thursday 09:15-10:45

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In this course, we discuss the central phonological properties of tone in language (i.e., in lexical tone, morphological tone, and intonation), especially tone spreading, dissimilation, underspecification, and downstep with a focus on their phonetic implementation.

Readings

Introduction by Example

Myers, S. (1997) OCP Effects in Optimality Theory. NLLT 15(4):847-892.
Hayes, B. & Lahiri, A. (1991) Bengali intonational Phonology. NLLT 9:47-96.
Beckman, M. & Pierrehumbert, J. (1986) Intonational Structure in Japanese and English. Phonology Yearbook III:15-70.

Underspecification:

Hyman, L. M. (2001) Privative tone in Bantu. In: K. Shigeki (ed.) Proceedings of the Symposium ``Crosslinguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: Tonogenesis, Japanese Accentology, and Other Topics''. Tokyo, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 237-258.
Myers, S. (1998) Surface Underspecification of Tone in Chichewa. Phonology 15 (1998) 367-391.

Spreading and Tone Spans

Akinbiyi, Akinlabi, and Mark Liberman (2001) Tonal complexes and Tonal Alignment. Proceedings of NELS 31:1-20.
Myers, S., Selkirk, E. & Fainleib, Y. (2018) Phonetic Implementation of High-Tone Spans in Luganda. Laboratory Phonology 9(1):1-22.

Segmental Anchoring

Prieto, P. (2011) Tonal Alignment. Blackwell Companion, 1185-1203
Grice, M., Ladd, D.R. and Arvaniti, A. (2000) On the Place of Phrase Accents in Intonational Phonology. Phonology 17(2):143-85.
Flemming, E. & Cho, H. (2017) The phonetic Specification of Contour Tones: Evidence from the Mandarin Rising Tone.Phonology 34:1-40.

Tonal and Segmental Features

Bradshaw, M. (1999) A crosslinguistic study of consonant-tone interaction. PhD thesis, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Kingston, J. & R. Diehl (1994) Phonetic Knowledge Language 70(3):419-454.

Upstep and Downstep

Snider, K. L. (1998) Phonetic realisation of downstep in Bimoba. Phonology 15:77-101.
Truckenbrodt, H. (2002) Upstep and embedded register levels. Phonology 19:77-120.
Laniran, Y. & Clements, G. N. (2003) Downstep and High Tone Raising: Interacting Factors in Yoruba Tone Production. Journal of Phonetics 31(2):203-250.
Kügler, F. (2016) Tone and Intonation in Akan. In: Downing, L. J. & Rialland, A. (eds.) Intonation in African Tone Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 89-129.

Dissimilation and OCP Effects

Myers, S. (2000) The phonetics and phonology of Tone Retraction in Shona. Ms., University of Texas at Austin.

Contour Tones:

Zhang, J. (2001) The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution - Typological Survey and Formal Analysis. PhD thesis, UCLA.
Remijsen, B. (2013) Tonal Alignment is contrastive In Falling Contours in Dinka. Language 89(2):297-327.

Contact

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