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Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Vol. 47:2 (2024) ► pp.263–296

Acoustic experimental study on the tone sandhi of the Jino language

| Beijing Language and Culture Unversity

This paper combines field investigation and phonetic experiments to study the monosyllabic tone and tone sandhi of the Jino language as spoken in Baka village. The study found that the phenomenon of tone sandhi in bisyllabic words of Jino language has describable rules: from a diachronic perspective, morphemes with the same historical origin exhibit the same tone alternation characteristics when constructing words, while morphemes with different historical origins exhibit different tone alternation characteristics. Morphemes derived from the *Proto-Lolo Tone 1 reorganize the metrical relationship between morphemes in word construction, resulting in unstressed and stressed tones. From the perspective of synchronic phonological analysis, the obligatory contour principle restricts the occurrence of tones in bisyllabic words. In addition, this paper also proposes some new views on the historical development of tones in Jino language from an empirical perspective.

Keywords: Jino language, Baka village, tone sandhi, acoustic study
Article outline
  • 1.General
  • 2.Experiment 1: Monosyllabic tone experiment
    • 2.1Participants
    • 2.2Materials
    • 2.3Recording process
    • 2.4Data measurement and analysis
    • 2.5Results
    • 2.6A preliminary discussion on the historical origin of Jino tones
  • 3.Experiment 2: Bisyllabic tone sandhi experiment
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Materials
    • 3.3Results
      • 3.3.3Nominal tone sandhi
      • 3.3.4Verbal tone sandhi
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Note
  • Author queries
  • References
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