Athabaskan prosody / / edited by Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 2005; ©2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 432 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 497/.2
• Soggetto topico: Athapascan languages; Athapascan Indians - Languages
• Altri autori: HargusSharon RiceKeren <1949->
• Note generali: Papers presented at the Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody, held June 2000 in Moricetown, B.C.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ATHABASKAN PROSODY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Goals of this volume -- 2. Background on Athabaskan languages -- 2.1 The family -- 2.2 Athabaskan morphology -- 2.3 Phonological domains -- 3. Tone -- 3.1 Tonogenesis -- 3.2 Markedness issues -- 3.3 Other tonal processes -- 3.4 Dakelh tone -- 3.5 Tsuut'ina tone -- 3.6 Phonetics of tone -- 3.7 Summary -- 4. Stress -- 4.1 Determining the position of prominence -- 4.2 The phonetics of stress -- 4.3 Foot structure and segmental consequences of stress -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. Stress/tone interactions -- 6. Intonation: beyond the word -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- PREFACE TO MICHAEL KRAUSS' ARTICLE -- References -- PREFACE TO 'ATHABASKAN TONE' -- ATHABASKAN TONE -- 0. Purpose -- 1. History -- 2. Constriction -- 3. Geography -- map -- 4. Sources -- 4.1 History of documentation -- 4.2 Standardization, evaluation and interpretation of sources -- 5. Stem phonology -- 6. Historical developments -- 6.1 Assimilation and neutralization of tone -- 6.2 Tables -- comments on forms in tables -- 6.3 Comments on each language in tables -- 7. Less understood languages -- 7.1 Extinct Athabaskan -- 7.2 Carrier and Alaskan tone -- References -- APPENDIX I: SUPPLEMENTARY NOUNS -- APPENDIX II: SOME PRACTICAL HELD TESTS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- THE PHONETICS OF ATHABASKAN TONOGENESIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of tone in Athabaskan -- 2.1 The history and geography of tone in Athabaskan -- 2.2 The evolution of tone contrasts -- 2.3 The phonetics of glottal shift and subsequent tonogenesis -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. A phonetic explanation f or the early evolution of high and low tone in Athabaskan -- 3.1 The articulation of glottalic consonants and the evolution of constricted vowels. ; 3.2 The physiology of glottal constriction and F0 -- 3.3 Getting to low and high tone from creaky voice alone -- 4. Alternative phonetic explanationsf or later reversals in tone -- 4.1 Tone reversals from persistent glottalic articulations -- 4.2 Tone reversals from mistaking a stem's tone for a prefix's -- 4.3 Extending the effects of the two mechanisms analogically -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- ON TONE AND LENGTH IN TAHLTAN (NORTHERN ATHABASKAN) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tone -- 2.1 Some Pilot Results -- 2.2 Summary and Implications -- 2.3 Historical Sources for Tone -- 3. Length -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 A Phonetic Study of Length -- 3.3 Tone-Induced Length Reconsidered -- References -- APPENDIX -- THE TONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN APACHE NOUN STEM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Proto-Athabaskan open noun stems -- 3. Proto-Athabaskan noun stems with stem-final sonorants -- 4. Proto-Athabaskan noun stems with plain stem-final obstruents -- 5. Proto-Athabaskan noun stents with stem-final glottalized obstruents -- 6. Some remarks on the perceptual salience of Western Apache tone distinctions -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- PROPERTIESOF TONE IN DENE SULINÉ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method and data -- 3. Results -- 3.1 General tone characteristics -- 3.2 Interaction of f0 with vowel quality -- 3.3 Interaction of f0 with preceding consonant -- 3.4 Interaction of f0 with tone on preceding syllable -- 3.5 Interaction of f0 with tone on following syllable -- 4. Summary and issues for future research -- References -- APPENDIX -- PITCH, TONE, AND INTONATION IN TANACROSS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tone -- 2.1 Complex tone -- 2.2 Progressive tone-spread -- 2.3 Inherent low tone -- 2.4 Tone summary -- 3. Intonation -- 3.1 Declarative -- 3.2 Interrogative -- 3.3 Imperative and content interrogative -- 4. Interaction between tone and intonation. ; 4.1 Sentence-final neutralization -- 4.2 Tone-spread and intonation -- 4.3 Recoverability -- 5. Summary -- References -- HOW STRESS SHAPES THE STEM-SUFFIX COMPLEX IN ATHABASKAN -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Synchronic vowel shortening in suffixes -- 2.1 Suffixal vowel reduction in Minto -- 2.2 Vowel shortening in Tlingit suffixes -- 3. The reflexes of PA vowels -- 4. Reconstructing PA vocalic suffixes -- 4.1 The development of PA *e in word-final position -- 4.2 The development of PA *-e' in word-final position -- 4.3 The kin noun suffix *-e -- 5. Two animal names borrowed from Athabaskan -- 6. The areal suffix -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- DURATION, INTONATION AND PROMINENCE IN APACHE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. San Carlos stems -- 2.1 Segment-level effects: San Carlos plosives -- 2.2 San Carlos [n] -- 3. Syllable-level effects: Jicarilla text data -- 3.1 Syllable durations -- 3.2 Stress vs. Final Lengthening -- 3.3 Rhythm in Jicarilla -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- APPENDIX -- PROMINENCE AND THE VERB STEM IN SLAVE (HARE) -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Consonants and identifying the verb stem -- 3. Vowels -- 4. Tones and identifying the verb stem -- 5. Consonant clusters and identifying the verb stem -- 6. Tonal plateaus and identifying the verb stem -- 7. A brief return to suffixes -- 8. Summary -- 9. Prosodie properties: prominence -- 9.1 Prominence in nouns -- 9.2 Prominence in verbs -- 10. Development of the Hare system -- 10.1 Phrasal tones and position within the clause -- 10.2 Restructuring of the Slave vowel system -- 10.3 Weighing the factors -- 11. Summary -- References -- A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH TO TAHLTAN STRESS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 The database -- 2.2 Transcription practice -- 3. Search results -- 3.1 First pass through the data -- 3.2 Stress-stern results. ; 3.3 Alternating and non-alternating stress -- 3.4 Syllable type -- 3.5 Position of main stress -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Summary of results -- 4.2 Morphological factors -- 4.3 Phonological factors -- References -- APPENDIX -- PROSODY IN TWO ATHABASKAN LANGUAGES OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Northern Athabaskan linguistic relationships -- 1.2 The current study -- 1.3 Overview of phonetic studies -- 2. Prosody in B-W -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Prosody -- 2.3 Summary of Witsuwit 'en prosody -- 3. Prosody in Sekani -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Prosody -- 3.3 Summary of Ft. Ware Sekani prosody -- 4. Prosody in Witsuwit'en vs. Ft. Ware Sekani -- 4.1 Vowel systems -- 4.2 Parameters of prosody -- 4.3 Phonetic correlates of stress -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- SUBJECT INDEX -- LANGUAGE INDEX -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache, Sekani, Slave, Tahltan, Tanacross, Western Apache, and Witsuwit'en. As well, some contributions describe how prosody is to be reconstructed for Proto-Athabaskan, and how it evolved in some of the daughter languages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Athabaskan prosody
• ISBN: 9786613092373; 9789027285294; 9027285292; 9781283092371; 1283092379
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954778903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; 269.