Locality Domains of Tonal Processes

Summer Semester 2024 • Module 04-046-2014 Suprasegmental Phonology • Thursday 13:15-14:45 • NSG, S 125

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Tone is the ideal phonological category to study the effect of locality domains for two reasons. First, tone per se is the least local phonological feature, which means that observed locality effects must be the consequence of specific domains, not of phonetic or functional limitations. Second, in many languages similar tonal processes apply in a variety of domains (especially: word-internal and phrasally) allowing for a comparison between different domains. The focus of this course are locality restrictions imposed by prosodic domains (e.g. feet, prosodic words, prosodic phrases), stratal-cyclic domains (e.g., stems) on processes such as tone spreading, dissimilation and insertion. We will discuss competing theoretical approaches, but also the typological distribution of processes and domains.

Cycles

• Pulleyblank, D. (1986). Tone in Lexical Phonology. Reidel, Dordrecht.
• Chen, F. (2021). On the left-/right-branching asymmetry in Mandarin tone 3 sandhi. Proceedings of AMP 2020.
• McHugh, B. (1999). Cyclicity in the Phrasal Phonology of KiVunjo Chaga. Lincom.
• Rolle, N. (2018). Grammatical tone: Typology and theory. PhD thesis, UC Berkeley.

Strata

• Myers, Scott (1987) Tone and the structure of words in Shona. PhD thesis, UMass Amherst.
• Myers, S. (1997). OCP effects in Optimality Theory. NLLT, 15(4):847-892.
• Anttila, A. and Bodomo, A. (2023). Tone and morphological level ordering in Dagaare. Phonology, 39(3):443-471.
• Trommer, J. (2024). The stratal structure of Kuria morphological tone. Phonology.
• Yokwe, E. M. (1986). The tonal grammar of Bari. PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Hyman, L. M. (1987). Prosodic domains in Kukuya . NLLT 5:311-333.
• Jones, P. J. (2014). Tonal Interaction in Kinande: Cyclicity, Opacity, and Morphosyntactic Structure. PhD thesis, MIT.

Feet

• Breteler, J. (2017) Deriving bounded tone with layered feet in Harmonic Serialism: The case of Saghala. Glossa, 2(1).
• Zhu, Y. (2023) A metrical analysis of light-initial tone sandhi in Suzhou Wu. NLLT 41:1629-1678.

Prosodic Words and Stems

• Downing, L. J. and Kadenge, M. (2020). Re-placing pstem in the prosodic hierarchy. The Linguistic Review 37(3):433-461.
• Trommer, J. (2016). Polarity, floating tones and the OCP in Anywa. Talk at OCP 13, Budapest, January 14, 2016.
• Jones, P. (2011) New Evidence for a Phonological Stem Domain in Kinande. Proceedings of WCCFL 28, 285-293.
• Hyman, L. M. (2008). Directional asymmetries in the morphology and phonology of words with special reference to Bantu. Linguistics, 46(2):309-350.
• Mkochi, W. and Bickmore, L. (2021) Tone and the prosodic stem in Malawian CiTonga. JALL 42(2):253-277.
• Hyman, L. M. (1985). Word domains and downstep in Bamileke-Dschang. Phonology Yearbook 2:47-83.
• Hyman, L. M., Katamba, F. X., and Walusimbi, L. (1987). Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis. Phonology Yearbook 4:87-108.
• Hyman Larry & Hildah Nyamwaro (2022) Grammatical tone mapping in Ekegusii. Phonology 39(3):503-529.

Prosodic Phrases

• Selkirk, E. (2011). The syntax-phonology interface. In Goldsmith, J., Riggle, J., and Yu, A. C. L., editors, The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 435-484. Wiley Blackwell, London.
• Cheng, L. L.-S. and Downing, L. (2012). Prosodic domains do not match spell-out domains. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 22(1):1-14.
• Kula, N. C. and Bickmore, L. S. (2015). Phrasal phonology in copperbelt bemba. Phonology, 32:147-176.
• Hyman, L. M. and Katamba, F. X. (2010). Tone, syntax, and prosodic domains in Luganda. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 53:69-98.
• Odden, D. (1987). Kimatuumbi Phrasal Phonology. Phonology Yearbook 4:13-36.

Phases

• Sande, H., Jenks, P., and Inkelas, S. (2020) Cophonologies by ph(r)ase. NLLT 38(4):1211-1261.
• Pak, M. (2008). The postsyntactic derivation and its phonological reflexes. PhD thesis, UPenn.
• Hyman, L. M. (2007). Kuki-Thaadow: An African tone system in Southeast Asia. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2007).
• Boskovic, Z. (2017) Tone sandhi in Taiwanese and phasal spell-out. Gengo Kenkyu 152: 31-58.

Contact

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