[Lingtyp] papers on non-uniqueness in tone and stress
TALLMAN Adam
Adam.TALLMAN at cnrs.fr
Thu Feb 4 10:12:53 UTC 2021
Hello all,
I'm looking for papers on the notion of non-uniqueness in phonology (or morphosyntax if applicable). I have three so far (Chao, Hockett, and Schane).
I'm particularly interesting in non-uniqueness in the domain of the description of suprasegmentals - like when we have a system that seems to mix tone and (other types of) prominence whether the system should be described as tonal with a stress mapped to it or vice versa. Phonologists discuss the issue as if there is an obvious unique best way of describing such relations in all cases. But I think that's probably false and it choosing one over the other just amounts to an expositional decision - some of the discussion in Tallman and Elias-Ulloa (2020) point in this direction in Chácobo.
There's also the related issue of when the acoustic correlates of some phonological category are organized in such a way as to genuinely merit the designation "tone". Phonologists seem to assume that this issue is trivial or obvious - again, I think this is probably false (the notion is more open ended than is recognized) regardless of the phonological evidence that can be rallied in support of one position or another.
@Article{chao:1934:phonemes,
title = {The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems},
author = {Yuen Ren Chao},
journal = {Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica},
year = {1934},
volume = {4},
number = {},
pages = {363-397},
%doi = {},
%urldate = {},
}
@incollection{hockett:1963:universals,
Author = {Charles F. Hockett},
Booktitle = {Universals of language (Volume 2)},
Editor = {Joseph H. Greenberg},
Pages = {1-29},
Publisher = {MIT Press},
Address = {Cambridge, MA},
Title = {The problem of universals in language},
Year = {1963},
Edition = {}}
@Article{schane:1968:nonuniqueness,
title = {On the non-uniqueness of phonological representations},
author = {Sanford A. Schane},
journal = {Language},
year = {1968},
volume = {44},
number = {4},
pages = {363-397},
%doi = {},
%urldate = {},
}
@Article{tallman:eliasulloa:2020:acoustics,
title = {The acoustic correlates of stress and tone in Chácobo (Pano)},
author = {Adam J.R. Tallman},
journal = {The acoustic correlates of stress and tone in Chácobo (Pano): A production study},
editor = {Adam J.R. Tallman and José Élias-Ulloa},
year = {2020},
volume = {147},
number = {4},
pages = {3028},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001014},
%urldate = {2019-07-04},
}
Adam
Adam James Ross Tallman (PhD, UT Austin)
ELDP-SOAS -- Postdoctorant
CNRS -- Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596)
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