Athabaskan Prosody
Editors
This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache, Sekani, Slave, Tahltan, Tanacross, Western Apache, and Witsuwit’en. As well, some contributions describe how prosody is to be reconstructed for Proto-Athabaskan, and how it evolved in some of the daughter languages.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 269] 2005. xii, 432 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | p. ix
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Acknowledgments | p. xi
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IntroductionKeren Rice and Sharon Hargus | pp. 1–45
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Part I. TONE
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The historical development of tone: A pan-Athabaskan perspective on the phonology
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Preface to Michael Krauss’ articleKeren Rice and Sharon Hargus | pp. 51–53
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Athabaskan Tone (1979)Michael E. Krauss | pp. 55–136
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The historical development of tone: A phonetic perspective
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The Phonetics of Athabaskan TonogenesisJohn Kingston | pp. 137–184
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Case Studies
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On Tone and Length in Taltan (Northern Athabaskan)John Alderete | pp. 185–207
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The Tonology of the Western Apache Noun StemWillem J. de Reuse | pp. 209–228
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Properties of Tone in Dene Soun’linéSuzanne Gessner | pp. 229–247
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Pitch, Tone and Intonation in TanacrossGary Holton | pp. 249–275
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Part II. PROMINENCE BEYOND TONE
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A pan-Athabaskan perspective on stress
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How stress shapes the stem-suffix complex in AthabaskanJeff Leer | pp. 277–318
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Case Studies
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Duration, Intonation and Prominence in ApacheSiri G. Tuttle | pp. 319–344
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Prominence and the verb stem in Slave (Hare)Keren Rice | pp. 345–368
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A Corpus-based Approach to Tahltan StressJohn Alderete and Tanya Bob | pp. 369–391
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Prosody in two Athabaskan languages of northern British ColumbiaSharon Hargus | pp. 393–423
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Index | pp. 425–432
“As is clear from [this volume], Athabaskan presents the most carefully documented and best understood cases of tonogenesis outside of Southeast Asia. This will be a volume that all linguists interested in such phonological issues will want to own.”
Larry M. Hyman, Berkeley
“[...] an important contribution to the study of Athabaskan linguistics and, more generally, to research on American Indian languages [...] The diversity of topics explored in the book make it clear that Athabaskan languages provide fertile ground for examining a number of complex prosodic issues.”
Matthew Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, in Phonology, Vol.23:1 (2006)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General