Segmental Structure and Tone

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Kehrein (editor); Björn Köhnlein (editor); Paul Boersma (editor); Marc van Oostendorp (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; 552
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The contributions address, among other things, the following basic questions: what tone-segment interactions exist, and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony and synchrony in relevant processes?
The contributions discuss data from various types of languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role, from ‘pure’ tone languages to so-called tone accent systems, where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian dialects in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also discusses languages as diverse as Slovenian, Livonian, Fuzhou Chinese, and Xhosa.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Interactions of tone and ATR in Slovenian
The history of the Franconian tone contrast
Tones and vowels in Fuzhou revisited
Grounding Nguni depressor effects
There’s no tone in Cologne: against tone-segment interactions in Franconian
Livonian stød
Synchronic alternations between monophthongs and diphthongs in Franconian tone accent dialects: a metrical approach
Tone, final devoicing, and assimilation in Moresnet
Subject index
Language index