Tone features revisited: evidence from Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)
Tone features revisited: evidence from Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)
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重新审视语气特征:来自 Seenku(曼德,布基纳法索)的证据
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2015
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Laura McPherson
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Laura McPherson
1. Do tones have features? 1.1 Background on tonal features • Segments are widely accepted to be made up of features encoding various phonetic parameters: o [voice], [cont], [labial], [dorsal], [sonorant], etc. • What about tone? o From a phonetic perspective, it is really just a single dimension: § Pitch/f0 (barring secondary aspects like voice quality) • Numerous feature systems have been proposed. (1) Proposed feature systems (as summarized by Hyman 2011) • I will be primarily focusing on and adopting Pulleyblank's (1986) feature system, which follows that of Yip (1980) but replaces [high] with [raised]. o These features allow for a four-level contrast, with two M tones: (2) Four tone levels produced by Pulleyblank's (1986) features H M M L [upper] + +-[raised] +-+-† I would like to thank Larry Hyman, Kie Zuraw, Abbie Hantgan, and audiences at Dartmouth College and Boston University for helpful discussion of pieces of this work. Many thanks to my consultants, Sy Clément Traoré, Gni Emma Traoré, and Gni Fatou Traoré for their help and their patience. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of NSF grant BCS-1263150 (2013-16) and the Dartmouth College Burke Award.