Tone and the prosodic stem in Malawian CiTonga

IF 0.4 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1515/jall-2021-2021
W. Mkochi, Lee S. Bickmore
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Abstract In CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken in northern Malawi, a number of different morphemes within the verbal complex can sponsor a High tone. While the High tone of a morpheme which precedes the stem is shown to be underlyingly pre-linked, those found after the beginning of the stem are argued to be underlyingly floating. This latter group of High tone autosegments can be shown to exclusively dock onto the first and last tone bearing units (TBUs) of the prosodic stem. This domain is not isomorphic with the morphological stem in that it must include the entire morphological stem as well as any of 3 different categories of enclitics which follow. The docking of the underlyingly floating Hs is shown to follow an edge-in process whereby a single H docks onto the initial TBU of the prosodic stem, a second H docks onto the final TBU of the prosodic stem, and any additional High tones remain floating, being phonologically inert. The paper provides an extensive range of newly presented data on this understudied Bantu language and constitutes a rare case of the prosodic stem being motivated by tonological factors.
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马拉维语中的音调与韵律词干
在马拉维北部的班图语CiTonga中,语素复合体中有许多不同的语素可以构成高音。在词干之前的语素的高音被证明是潜在的前连音,而词干开始之后的语素的高音则被认为是潜在的浮动音。后一组高音自动分段可以显示为专门停靠在韵律系统的第一个和最后一个音调承载单元(TBUs)上。这个领域与形态学干不是同构的,因为它必须包括整个形态学干以及随后的三种不同类型的词性。基本的浮动H的对接是遵循一个边向内的过程,即一个H与韵律茎的第一个TBU对接,第二个H与韵律茎的最后一个TBU对接,任何额外的高音保持浮动,在语音上是惰性的。本文提供了广泛的关于班图语研究不足的最新数据,并构成了韵律系统受音调因素驱动的罕见案例。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979 and has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics welcomes original contributions on all aspects of African language studies, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented. The journal further contains a list of recently published books on African languages and linguistics, which many libraries find to be of use for the acquisition of books. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.
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