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

[Françoise Rose]

Hi Adam,
I am not sure this is fully relevant (and it's not dealing with suprasegmentals), but I have very much enjoyed reading the following paper on the ambiguity of phonological criteria in the descriptions of certain phonological issues:

Hall, Kathleen Currie. 2013. "A Typology of Intermediate Phonological Relationships." The Linguistic Review 30 (2).

Best,
Françoise

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

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





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