1. Tone and inflection: An introduction

Palancar, Enrique L.; Léonard, Jean Leó

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“…To this end, we illustrate that Mande THM can be viewed as an instance of tonal head neutralization, a phenomenon whose characteristics are discussed by Hyman (2018). Furthermore, because THM in Mande is primarily a morphologically-conditioned phenomenon, rather than a phonologically-conditioned one, it arguably falls within the domain of grammatical tone, GT (Hyman 2011;Palancar & Léonard 2016a;Rolle 2018;Konoshenko 2017a), though its characteristics do not necessarily precisely align with all aspects of proposed GT typologies. After presenting our data and analysis, we consider in Section 5 how the Mande outcomes we observe fit within Hyman's (2018) typology of tonal neutralization and Rolle's (2018) typology of grammatical tone.…”

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“…One potential problem with such a proposition, however, is that there is no independent evidence that would point to a segmental origin for such a vestigial floating tone. Grammatical tones are thought to typically derive through loss of a historical segmental morpheme (Hyman 2011;Palancar & Léonard 2016a;Konoshenko 2017a), but there is no reason to posit such a historical head marker in any contemporary Mande language, nor has one been reconstructed for Proto Mande compounds. As an anonymous reviewer points out, however, learners could have come to posit a floating tone to explain synchronic THM patterns, regardless of the historical facts.…”

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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

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Konoshenko²

2022

mandenkan

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and Elena Perekhvalskaya) which allowed us to expand our survey. Thanks also to Gary Mullin for graphic design assistance. Maria Konoshenko's participation in this research is supported, in part, by the Russian Science Foundation, project 17-78-20071 "Languages of West Africa: description and comparative analysis." The authors' names are listed in alphabetical order; each contributed equally to the manuscript.2 To remain consistent, and due to differing transcription practices in consulted sources, we use the following conventions throughout this paper to indicate tone on a given tone

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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

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Konoshenko²

2022

mandenkan

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“…The detailed investigation of the grammatical tone in Mande languages has been started by Maria Konoshenko (Konoshenko 2017). For tone and derivation, see also (Palancar & Léonard 2016).…”

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Grammatical functions of tone in San Maka

Perekhvalskaya¹

2021

mandenkan

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“…Grammatical tonological operations are those triggered in a particular morphosyntactic context, rather than those that are generally applied in a particular phonologically determined context. For recent examples of work on grammatical tone in particular languages or language families, see Trommer (2011), Cruz (2011), McKendry (2013), Campbell (2014), McPherson (2014, 2016, 2019), Harry & Hyman (2014), Odden & Bickmore (2014), Villard (2015), McIntosh (2015), Sullivant (2015), Marlo et al (2015), Kim (2016), Palancar & Léonard (2016), Zimmermann (2016), Kubozono (2016), McPherson & Heath (2016), Sande (2018), Kouneli & Nie (2021), Meyase (2021) and Rodriguez (2021).…”

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Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

Sande

2022

Phonology

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This article considers the question of what constitutes item-based morphology, with a specific look at grammatical tone. Numerous case studies of grammatical tone are examined in light of the debate on whether morphology is item-based or process-based. In each case, tonal alternations are an exponent, sometimes the sole exponent, of some grammatical feature. Two of the case studies are examples of grammatical tone that can straightforwardly be analysed as involving concatenated morphophonological forms; however, in other cases, the grammatical tone cannot be reduced to the concatenation of a tonal affix or phonological feature with some stem. The latter type cannot straightforwardly be analysed as item-based, but if still phonologically predictable and productive, is not satisfactorily analysed as suppletive. This article suggests a set of diagnostics that can be used to determine whether a given phenomenon is best analysed as item-based, process-based or suppletive. Then, an analysis is presented in Cophonologies by Phase (CbP), where morphosyntactic features can be mapped not only to underlying phonological items, but also to morpheme-specific constraint weight adjustments. CbP allows for what may have been traditionally called item-based and process-based morphology to co-exist in a single framework.

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1. Tone and inflection: An introduction

Cited by 5 publications

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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

Grammatical functions of tone in San Maka

Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

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