Athabaskan Prosody

Editors

Sharon Hargus

| University of Washington

Keren Rice

| University of Toronto

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027247834 | EUR 130.00 | USD 195.00

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.269

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Keren Rice and Sharon Hargus	1–45
Part I. TONE
The historical development of tone: A pan-Athabaskan perspective on the phonology	47–49
Preface to Michael Krauss’ article Keren Rice and Sharon Hargus	51–53
Athabaskan Tone (1979) Michael E. Krauss	55–136
The historical development of tone: A phonetic perspective
The Phonetics of Athabaskan Tonogenesis John Kingston	137–184
Case Studies
On Tone and Length in Taltan (Northern Athabaskan) John Alderete	185–207
The Tonology of the Western Apache Noun Stem Willem J. de Reuse	209–228
Properties of Tone in Dene Soun’liné Suzanne Gessner	229–247
Pitch, Tone and Intonation in Tanacross Gary Holton	249–275
Part II. PROMINENCE BEYOND TONE
A pan-Athabaskan perspective on stress
How stress shapes the stem-suffix complex in Athabaskan Jeff Leer	277–318
Case Studies
Duration, Intonation and Prominence in Apache Siri G. Tuttle	319–344
Prominence and the verb stem in Slave (Hare) Keren Rice	345–368
A Corpus-based Approach to Tahltan Stress John Alderete and Tanya Bob	369–391
Prosody in two Athabaskan languages of northern British Columbia Sharon Hargus	393–423
Index	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

Linguistics

Phonetics

Languages of North America

Phonology

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005050838