Sequences of high tones across word boundaries in Tswana

IF 0.8 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of the International Phonetic Association Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI:10.1017/S0025100321000141
Sabine Zerbian, F. Kügler
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The article analyses violations of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) above the word level in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language, by investigating the realization of adjacent lexical high tones across word boundaries. The results show that across word boundaries downstep (i.e. a lowering of the second in a series of adjacent high tones) only takes place within a phonological phrase. A phonological phrase break blocks downstep, even when the necessary tonal configuration is met. A phrase-based account is adopted in order to account for the occurrence of downstep. Our study confirms a pattern previously reported for the closely related language Southern Sotho and provides controlled, empirical data from Tswana, based on read speech of twelve speakers which has been analysed auditorily by two annotators as well as acoustically.
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茨瓦纳语中跨越单词边界的高音序列
本文通过对南班图语茨瓦纳语跨词边界相邻高音调的实现情况的考察,分析了其在词层面以上违反强制等高线原则的情况。结果表明,跨词边界的降音(即在一系列相邻的高音中降低第二个音)只发生在音系短语中。一个音系短语中断阻止降调,即使必要的音调配置得到满足。为了解释downstep的发生,我们采用了基于短语的解释。我们的研究证实了之前报道的一种与南索托语密切相关的语言模式,并提供了来自茨瓦纳语的受控的经验数据,这些数据基于12位说话者的朗读语音,由两位注释者在听觉和听觉上进行了分析。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for work in the fields of phonetic theory and description. As well as including papers on laboratory phonetics/phonology and related topics, the journal encourages submissions on practical applications of phonetics to areas such as phonetics teaching and speech therapy, as well as the analysis of speech phenomena in relation to computer speech processing. It is especially concerned with the theory behind the International Phonetic Alphabet and discussions of the use of symbols for illustrating the phonetic structures of a wide variety of languages. JIPA now publishes online audio files to supplement written articles Published for the International Phonetic Association
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