Why metrical approaches to tonal accent are worth pursuing

Unlike existing analyses with lexical tone, metrical foot-based approaches to tonal accent in Franconian not only focus on an explicit analysis of the tonal contours, but are also equipped to account formally for morphological alternations and other predictable correlates. Examples are interactions...

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Published in:Phonology 2019-08, Vol.36 (3), p.531-535
Main Author: Köhnlein, Björn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accentuation
Diachronic analysis
Dialects
Foot
Germanic languages
Grammar
Intonation
Language Variation
Metrical phonology
Morphology
Phonetics
Phonology
Speech duration
Squibs and Replies
Stress
Tone
West Germanic languages
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Summary:Unlike existing analyses with lexical tone, metrical foot-based approaches to tonal accent in Franconian not only focus on an explicit analysis of the tonal contours, but are also equipped to account formally for morphological alternations and other predictable correlates. Examples are interactions of tonal accent with duration, vowel and consonant quality. The existence of such additional correlates is in line with a foot-based analysis, since it mirrors correlates of stress and foot structure found in Germanic languages and elsewhere.
ISSN:0952-6757
1469-8188
DOI:10.1017/S0952675719000241