Three Tashelhiyt Berber Texts From the Arsène Roux Archives

Stroomer, Harry

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“…It is spoken by substantial numbers of people in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali and Niger, and is an official language in Morocco. Tashlhiyt Berber, the variety investigated here, is one of three main Berber dialects spoken in Morocco and is sufficiently homogeneous for all native speakers, who number an estimated eight to nine million people, to communicate without difficulty (Stroomer 2008).…”

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Tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber: evidence from polar questions and contrastive statements

2015

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International audienceThe placement of F0 peaks in Tashlhiyt Berber is highly variable, both within and across speakers, even across repetitions of the same target sentence. We show that peak placement is determined by a number of competing factors: in addition to a general tendency for the peak to be placed on the rightmost syllable – a tendency that is stronger in questions than in statements – the peak is attracted to the syllable with the most sonorous nucleus and preferentially to heavy syllables. Moreover, in words consisting entirely of obstruents, there are three possible intonation patterns: no F0 peak at all, an anticipated peak (before the target word) or a peak on a vocoid between two obstruents. The F0 peak is analysed phonologically as a H tone that is either associated with a postlexically determined syllable or, if the syllable is not tone-bearing, aligned with the edge of the larger domain

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Tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber: evidence from polar questions and contrastive statements

2015

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“…Morocco is the only North African country to have given official status to this language (alongside Modern Standard Arabic). Tashlhiyt is one of the three varieties of Moroccan Amazigh, and the largest by its number of speakers, who number an estimated 7 to 9 million (Stroomer, ). The other Moroccan Amazigh varieties are Tamazight and Tarifiyt.…”

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Ridouane

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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“…Berber is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken mainly in Morocco and Algeria. Tashlhiyt Berber (henceforth TB), the variety investigated here, is one of three major Berber dialects in Morocco spoken by an estimated 8 to 9 million people [12].…”

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Sonority and syllable weight determine tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber

Röttger,

Ridouane,

Grice

2012

Speech Prosody 2012

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We investigated the alignment of F0 peaks in disyllabic target words in polar questions and contrastive statements in Tashlhiyt Berber, concentrating on cases where both syllables contained a sonorant nucleus. Peak location, interpreted as H tone association, is not only determined by the communicative function of the utterance, but also by sonority and syllable weight, with a preference for more sonorous segments and heavy syllables. This work confirms earlier findings on Intonation Phrase medial tones in this language, and sheds further light on the interaction of sonority and weight as determining factors in tonal association.

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Three Tashelhiyt Berber Texts From the Arsène Roux Archives

Cited by 4 publications

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Tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber: evidence from polar questions and contrastive statements

Tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber: evidence from polar questions and contrastive statements

Leading issues in Tashlhiyt phonology

Sonority and syllable weight determine tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber

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