Stress in Punjabi

Dhillon, Rajdip

doi:10.3765/bls.v33i1.3519

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“…Falling tones occur most commonly on stressed syllables, a finding in agreement with the claims of Shackle (2003). Initial syllables of disyllabic words bear stress (Dhillon 2007); our finding of falling tones in this position agrees with the claims of Kanwal and Ritchart (2015). Analysis of the data in this study also identifies tone in non-stressed and non-initial positions, and on non-heavy syllables (contra Bowden 2012).…”

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“…Furthermore, the dataset was designed to capture differences due to metrical structure. Stress is reported to occur on the left‐most syllable of Punjabi lexical words as the default (Dhillon , ). In words where the first two syllables are short‐long (#μ.μμ), stress still tends to fall on the first syllable (Dhillon ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Stress is reported to occur on the left‐most syllable of Punjabi lexical words as the default (Dhillon , ). In words where the first two syllables are short‐long (#μ.μμ), stress still tends to fall on the first syllable (Dhillon ). Crosslinguistically, metrically prominent positions attract tone, especially high tone (Bickmore ; de Lacy ) and contour tones (Zhang : 62).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Crosslinguistically, metrically prominent positions attract tone, especially high tone (Bickmore ; de Lacy ) and contour tones (Zhang : 62). Punjabi syllables can be light (μ), heavy (μμ), or superheavy (μμμ, as in /ʧɑːɽ/, [ʧɑɽ], ‘four’; Dhillon , ). Various references cited above suggest that Punjabi tone would be more likely to occur in metrically strong locations, such as stressed syllables, initial syllables, and/or non‐short syllables.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Various references cited above suggest that Punjabi tone would be more likely to occur in metrically strong locations, such as stressed syllables, initial syllables, and/or non‐short syllables. The study did not test speaker’s perception of stress, but relied on the description in Dhillon (). Words were chosen from a varied mora structure in order to yield a dataset that is balanced across the range of possible mora combinations.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Acoustics of Tone in Indian Punjabi

Evans

Yeh

Kulkarni

2018

Trans of the Philol Soc

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This study explores the effects of tone on fundamental frequency in Punjabi, one of few Indo-European languages to have lexical tone. Previous studies present conflicting claims regarding the direction of pitch movement, the location in the word of the tone, and interactions between tone and prosodic structure. For the present study, Punjabi speakers of India were presented with a production task, based on a metrically balanced corpus. Results show that Punjabi tone tends to be most fully realized on stressed syllables, where it occurs as a significant fall in fundamental frequency. On non-stressed syllables, tone can be realized as falling, high, or may not be realized. In some cases, syllable length plays a role in determining where in the word the pitch falls. There are implications for the diachronic trajectory of tonogenesis, which was concomitant with the loss of murmured stops in Punjabi. First, the intrinsic pitch lowering of murmured voicing has led to a falling tone in prosodically prominent positions. Second, tonogenesis in Punjabi has resulted in a privative tone system, in which syllables are either tonal or toneless, rather than a system in which there are multiple tone values, or in which most syllables are specified for tone.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Acoustics of Tone in Indian Punjabi

Evans

Yeh

Kulkarni

2018

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Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable

Liang

Wee

2021

LALI

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Implicit in all current theories of the syllable is some assumption of the internal configuration. Prevalent among these are the onset-rime (OR) and the moraic (μ) models, both supported by rather different types of evidence. The OR model favors an interpretation where constituency is exhaustive until the level of the segment which itself is a temporal unit with which melodic features associate. The μ-model distinguishes only what is non-moraic from what is moraic so that sub-syllabic constituency is an accidental result of projecting to/from the same mora. This paper postulates a more fundamental segment-melody complex that projects into two different dimensions: melody and prosody, thus capturing the insights of both the OR and μ-models through the separation of constituency issues with prosodic ones. This approach has direct applications in figuring out two long-standing conundrums in Chinese: the status of the medial glide and the prosodic properties of tonelessness. The segment-melody complex also predicts mismatches in moraicity and syllabicity as well as the mediating effect of the skeletal slots between the melodic root nodes and their moraic status.

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Reduplication Initiated Through Discourse Markers: A Case of Hadoti.

Chand¹,

Kar²

2020

Dialectologia

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Reduplication is a common morphological process in many languages, particularly in South Asia. This study focuses on the reduplication phenomenon in Hadoti, where it ensues with the help of a discourse marker /rə/, functioning as an emphasizing agent in the process. This marker comes between the base and the reduplicant for expressing emphasis in work or action or verb (as in /kʰa rə kʰa/ ‘do eat,’ etc.). In Hadoti, /rə/ functions as a vocative case marker when it comes at the end of the sentence as in /ram ɡjo rə/ ‘Ram went’. However, when /rə/ occurs in between the base and the reduplicant, the stress shifts on the latter from the base. Phenomena of reduplication with a specific focus on the use of /rə/ are discussed in the current study using the constraints like *CLASH, and STRESS-TO-RED, etc. This particular phenomenon is predominantly present in the case of verbs in Hadoti, which is a unique feature of this variety of Hindi.

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Stress in Punjabi

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Cited by 5 publications

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Acoustics of Tone in Indian Punjabi

Acoustics of Tone in Indian Punjabi

Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable

Reduplication Initiated Through Discourse Markers: A Case of Hadoti.

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