Phonological phrasing in Northern Sotho (Bantu)
Phonological phrasing in Northern Sotho (Bantu)
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北索托语（班图语）的语音措辞
DOI：
10.1515/tlr.2007.009
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Sabine Zerbian
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作者：
Sabine Zerbian
摘要本文讨论了南非班图语北索托语中倒数第二音节的延长和词尾限制。这些超分段规则在其应用领域的定义中主要涉及韵律结构。本文部分依靠声学证据表明，右边延长和终局限制所适用的韵律域是共延的，它们可以被表征为语调短语。本文通过对延长限制和终结限制的语境研究，认为北索托语语调短语的右边缘与句法InfP的右边缘是对齐的。这篇文章的发现与班图语Haya和Kinyambo的措辞模式相匹配。然而，两种语言在措辞所用的语音线索上有所不同。因此，本文有助于跨班图语言的比较工作，涉及语音线索的短语以及相关的语音-语法映射的限制。
Abstract The article discusses penultimate lengthening and the finality restriction in Northern Sotho, a Bantu language of South Africa. These suprasegmental rules crucially refer to prosodic structure in the definition of their domain of application. Relying partially on acoustic evidence, the article shows that the prosodic domains at whose right edges lengthening and the finality restriction apply are co-extensive and that they can be characterized as Intonational Phrase. By investigating the contexts in which lengthening and the finality restriction apply, the article argues that the right edge of the Intonational Phrase in Northern Sotho is aligned with the right edge of the syntactic InfP. The findings of this article match the patterns of phrasing reported for the Bantu languages Haya and Kinyambo. The languages differ, however, in the phonetic cues employed for phrasing. The article thus contributes to comparative work across Bantu languages in what concerns phonetic cues to phrasing as well as relevant constraints on the phonology-syntax mapping.