Southeast Asian Tone in Areal Perspective

Kirby, James; Brunelle, Marc

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“…Tonal contrasts are rare in the Austronesian language family, and their appearance is strikingly skewed to two areas. In the far west of the Austronesian area, a few Chamic languages have developed tonal contrasts in contact with tonal languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (Kirby and Brunelle 2017). All others cases of tonal Austronesian languages in our sample are within Linguistic Melanesia.…”

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Linguistic Melanesia

Schapper¹

2020

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

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Section: Phonological Featuresmentioning

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Linguistic Melanesia

Schapper¹

2020

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

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“…For instance, the studies reviewed for this article lead us to believe that the tone systems in this particular region may also offer a more detailed assessment of the situation, especially if the criteria listed in Section 2.1.1 are applied Kirby and Brunelle (2017) describe the situation in Mainland Southeast Asia using complexity of tone systems as a parameter (see also Ratliff, 2015;Brunelle and Kirby, 2015). In any case, a methodologically sound proposal would need to include morphosyntactic and historical data as well.…”

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“…For instance, McConwell's (2010) handbook chapter on language contact in Australia discusses convergence of phoneme inventories but provides no discussion of the suprasegmental domain. The current paper aims to illustrate how the examination of phonological patterns that go beyond segment inventories may indeed shed more light on language contact effects (see also Kirby and Brunelle, 2017, for tone systems in Southeast Asia). What's more, we entertain the idea that this specific type of data constitutes a reliable tool to determine if given changes are inherited or contact-induced.…”

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Beyond Segment Inventories: Phonological Complexity Measures and Suprasegmental Variables in Contact Situations

Napoleão de Souza,

Sinnemäki

2023

J. Lang. Contact

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This article has three goals. First, it provides a broad cross-linguistic survey of phonological change in contact situations focusing on the suprasegmental domain. The term suprasegmental refers here to syllable structure, stress patterns, tonal patterns, and vowel and nasal harmony systems. Secondly, it assesses phonological change to suprasegmental variables whereby external influence causes an increase in complexity in the recipient language’s structure. Thirdly, using insights from the phonological typology literature, it provides a preliminary framework to evaluate suprasegmental phenomena, which can then serve as an additional tool to disentangle inheritance from contact-induced change. Data from 45 languages suggest that the suprasegmental domain provides fertile ground for inspecting contact-influenced increases in linguistic complexity. Overall, we argue that the data reviewed here highlight the relevance of phonological structure as a variable in studies of language contact, which have been mostly preoccupied with morphosyntactic variables.

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“…However, the aforementioned tonal languages are all located in northern California and Oregon, near the northern border of Wintuan. As tone is often areal (Southeast Asia being perhaps the most famous example; see Kirby and Brunelle (2017)), it is not entirely out of the question that it might have spread to Wintuan from one of these nearby language families. Lawyer (2015Lawyer ( , 2021 provides the only other analyses of Patwin phonetics and phonology.…”

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Automatic intonational contour clustering in Patwin

Anna Björklund

2024

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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This study uses automated methods from Contour Clustering (Kaland 2021) to identify seven common intonational patterns in Patwin, an understudied Wintuan language of Northern California that survives via archival recordings. Only two phonetic or phonological analyses currently exist for Patwin (Lawyer 2015, 2021). This study finds that all seven contours suggested by Contour Clustering are attested in word-list elicitation, demonstrating a remarkable diversity of intonational types. In so doing, this study challenges claims made in Shafer (1961) that Patwin has lexical tone. Though the results are generally successful, Contour Clustering is not robust to the effects of poor recording quality on pitch tracking and subsequent cluster assignment. In general, this study indicates that using automated methods in tandem with a more phonologically grounded method of analysis such as PaToBI (Silverman et al. 1992; Björklund 2024) is fruitful for facilitating working with large amounts of archival data. This study adds to our limited understanding of Wintuan intonation, suggesting new intonation types for future investigation.

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Southeast Asian Tone in Areal Perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 62 publications

Linguistic Melanesia

Linguistic Melanesia

Beyond Segment Inventories: Phonological Complexity Measures and Suprasegmental Variables in Contact Situations

Automatic intonational contour clustering in Patwin

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