Problems in Kuria H tone assignment
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Date
2015
Authors
Mwita, L. C.
Marlo, Michael R.
Paster, Mary
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Publisher
Springer Verlag
Abstract
In the Buguumbe dialect of Kuria, the assignment of inflectional H tones to the verb poses at least two theoretically significant problems. First, the principles of tone assignment count to four and are not amenable to a metrical analysis, which is problematic for theories of locality. Second, for at least some speakers, the principles of tone assignment are phrase-level processes that refer to the internal structure of the verbal word, which is problematic for the notion of Bracket Erasure within Lexical Phonology
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DOI 10.1007/s11049-014-9251-y
Keywords
Counting, Tone, Bantu, Lexical Phonology, Prosodic domains
Citation
Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2015) 33:251–265