[Lingtyp] papers on non-uniqueness in tone and stress

[Mark Van de Velde]

Dear Adam:

I can recommend Hyman (2012).

All the best,

Mark

Hyman, Larry M. 2012. In defense of prosodic typology: A response to 
Beckman and Venditti. /Linguistic Typology/. De Gruyter Mouton 16(3). 
341–385. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity-2012-0014.



On 04/02/2021 11:12, TALLMAN Adam wrote:
> 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
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