Lexical Accent Systems - Summer Semester 2022
Jochen Trommer
Module 04-046-2014 Suprasegmental Phonology • Thursday 17:15-18:45 NSG S 211
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In lexical accent systems, morphemes carry unpredictable prominence. Thus if a word has just one underlyingly stressed morpheme, this is typically stressed However, languages resort to complex and diverse resolution
strategies when there are two or more stressed morphemes in a word, based on linear order and structure.
Further complications arise with word forms lacking stressed morphemes, languages where stress is partially predictable, and with morphemes triggering preaccentuation, postaccentuation or even deaccentuation. The focus of this course will be the broad typological spectrum of lexical accent systems and their significance for phonological and morphological theory. Besides stress accent languages (where accent/prominence corresponds to increased phonetic length, and intensity), we will also discuss related tonal accent systems like Japanese where the major correlate of accent is pitch.
Preliminary Program
| Theoretical Topics | Paper 1 | Paper 2 | Paper 1 |
| Competition and Resolution: | Alderete, J. (2001a) | Yates (2017a) | Revithiadou (2007) |
| Dominance: | Czaykowska-Higgins (1993)
| Inkelas, S. (1998) | Dąbkowski, M. (2021) |
| Restricted Tone Languages: | Worbs (2016) | Pulleyblank (1986) | Hyman & Byarushengo (1984) |
| Tone Accent vs. Stress Accent : | Spahr (2016) | Beckman, & Pierrehumbert (1986) | Hargus & Beavert (2016) |
| Paradigmatic Effects:
| Butska (2002) | Steriade & Yanovich (2015) | |
Literature
Competition and Resolution
- Alderete, J. (2001a). Root-controlled accent in Cupeno. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 19:455-501.
- Yates, A. D. (2017a) Against Root Faithfulness in Cupeno Stress. Ms. UCLA
- Revithiadou, A. (2007). Colored turbid accents and containment: A case study from lexical stress. In: Blaho, S., Bye, P., and Krämer, M. (eds.) Freedom of Analysis?, 149-174. Mouton De Gruyter.
- Yates, A. D. (2017b). Lexical Accent in Cupeno, Hittite, and Indo-European. PhD thesis, UCLA.
- Alderete, J. (2001b). Morphologically governed accent in Optimality Theory. Routledge, New York.
- Vaxman, A. (2016). How to beat without feet: Weight scales and parameter dependencies in the computation of word accent. PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
- Sandell, R. (2015). Productivity in Historical Linguistics: Computational Studies in Word Formation in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles.
- Bogomolets,K. (2020) Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology, PhD
University of Connecticut
Dominance
- Czaykowska-Higgins, E. (1993) Cyclicity and Stress in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxa'amxcin). NLLT 11(2):197-278
- Halle, M. and Mohanan, K. P. (1985). Segmental phonology of Modern English. Linguistic Inquiry, 16:57-116. (on Vedic)
- Halle, M. & Vergnaud, J.-R. (1987). Stress and the cycle. Linguistic Inquiry, 18(1):45-84.
- Inkelas, S. (1998). The theoretical status of morphologically conditioned phonology: a case study from dominance. Yearbook of Morphology 1997, 121-155.
- Chung, S. (1983). Transderivational constraints in Chamorro phonology. Language, 59(1):35-66.
- Dabkowski, M. (2021) Dominance is non-representational: evidence from A'ingae verbal stress. Phonology 38(4):611-650.
- Blevins, J. (1993). A tonal analysis of Lithuanian nominal accent. Language, 69(2):237-273.
- Kushnir, Y. (2018). Lithuanian Pitch Accent. PhD thesis, Universität Leipzig.
Restricted Tone Languages
- Worbs, S. E. (2016). Positionally restricted tone systems in Papuan languages. BA thesis, Leipzig University.
- Hyman, L. M. & Byarushengo, E. R. (1984). A model of Haya tonology. In Clements, G. N. and Goldsmith, J., editors, Autosegmental studies in Bantu tone, 53-103. Foris.
- Pulleyblank, D. (1986). Tone in Lexical Phonology. Reidel.
Tone Accent vs. Stress Accent
- Beckman, M. & Pierrehumbert, J. (1986). Intonational structure in japanese and english. Phonology Yearbook, 3:15-70.
- Dubina, A. (2012). Towards a Tonal Analysis of Free Stress. PhD thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
- Spahr, C. E. (2016). Contrastive representations in non-segmental phonology. PhD thesis, University of Toronto.
- Cowell, A. & A. Moss (2015) The Arapaho Language. University Press of Colorado.
- Hargus S. & V. Beavert (2016) Sahaptin: Between stress and tone.
Proceedings of AMP 2015
- Hyman, L. M. (2009). How (not) to do phonological typology: the case of pitch-accent. Language Sciences, 31:213-238.
Paradigmatic Effects
- Butska, L. (2002) Faithful Stress in Paradigms: Nominal Inflection in Ukrainian
and Russian, Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University.
- Steriade, D. & Yanovich, I. (2015) Accentual allomorphs in East
Slavic: An argument for inflection dependence
Contact
Jochen Trommer
Institut für Linguistik
Universität Leipzig
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