{"id":67,"date":"2008-03-10T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2008\/03\/10\/phonology-circle-this-week\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T15:57:08","slug":"phonology-circle-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/03\/10\/phonology-circle-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology circle this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phonology circle this week will feature a presentation by Patrick Jones.

\nTitle: “Accounting for Falling Tones in Kinande Infinitive Verbs”

\nTime: 5pm, 32-D831
<\/p>\n

In this talk, I will propose a novel analysis of Kinande infinitive tone that explains why
\n(a) most infinitives receive penultimate high tones at the end of an utterance (\/eri-hum-a\/ → [erihúma] \u0091to hit\u0092), but some (passives, causatives, and forms with CV\/VC roots) receive final falling tones (\/eri-so-a\/ → [eriswâ] \u0091to grind\u0092); and (b) H-toned consonant-initial roots surface with a high tone on the first vowel before the root (erítâ \u0091to bury\u0092), while H-toned vowel-initial roots surface with a falling tone on the first vowel of the root (eryôtâ \u0091to bask\u0092). <\/p>\n

The principal elements of the analysis will be:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Phrasal Tone Assignment (PTA) results from the interaction of\n
      \n
    • a) constraints on tonal alignment<\/li>\n
    • b) constraints against effortful pitch movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Lexical Tone Assignment (LTA) results from the interaction of\n
        \n
      • a) faithfulness to underlying H and L pitch targets<\/li>\n
      • b) constraints against effortful pitch movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Verbal roots commonly referred to as \u0093H-toned\u0094 are better analyzed as roots
        \ncontaining an underlying pitch accent that falls from H to L.<\/li>\n
      • Both PTA and LTA make crucial reference a phonologically-defined Stem (the
        \nP-Stem) that is distinct from the morphologically-defined Stem (the M-Stem).
        \nThe P-stem will be shown to be independently required in order to account
        \nfor reduplication facts and alternations involving the purposive suffix \u0096irir.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Phonology circle this week will feature a presentation by Patrick Jones. Title: “Accounting for Falling Tones in Kinande Infinitive Verbs” Time: 5pm, 32-D831 In this talk, I will propose a novel analysis of Kinande infinitive tone that explains why (a) most infinitives receive penultimate high tones at the end of an utterance (\/eri-hum-a\/ → [erihúma] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}