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Zhang, Jie (2000).
The phonetic basis for tonal melody mapping. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 19, 603-616. Retrieved from
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TitleThe phonetic basis for tonal melody mapping
PublisherCascadilla Press
Date Created2000
Extent14 p.
DescriptionTonal melody mapping (for example, one tone per syllable, in left-to-right fashion) has been proposed as a common way of analyzing lexical tonal patterns for languages like Mende, Etung, and Kikuyu (Leben 1971, 1973, 1978; Edmondson and Bendor-Samuel 1966; Clements 1984). I argue that the mapping analyses of lexical tones in these cases are unwarranted and the surface tonal patterns resulted from such 'mapping' are in fact due to constraints on the distribution of contour tones. These constraints are phonetically grounded, and are based on the principles that contours are preferentially limited to syllables with longer duration. These include, but are not limited to, the final syllables in a prosodic domain (Oller 1973, Klatt 1975) and syllables in shorter words (Lehiste 1972, Lindblom and Rapp 1973).
NoteThe definitive version of this article was published in WCCFL 19 : proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2000) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl19.html
NoteZhang, J. (2000). The Phonetic Basis for Tonal Melody Mapping. In R. Billerey & B.D. Lillehaugen (Eds.), WCCFL 19 : Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 43-56.). Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Press.
GenreConference Paper or Lecture
LanguageEnglish
Data Life Cycle Event(s)
Type: Citation
Date: 2000
Editor: R. Billerey
Editor: B.D. Lillehaugen
Name: Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Additional Detail(s)Type: Conference Proceedings
Name: Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Detail: 603-616
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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