{"id":7225,"date":"2015-04-13T05:08:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T09:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2015-04-12T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T03:47:05","slug":"phonology-circle-413-patrick-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/04\/13\/phonology-circle-413-patrick-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 4\/13 - Patrick Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/patrick-jackson-jones\"><strong>Patrick Jones<\/strong><\/a> (Harvard)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Underlying falling tones in Interlacustrine Bantu, and their implications for    Meeussen\u0092s rule <\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Monday, April 13th<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 5-6:30<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32D-831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I argue that in a number of Bantu languages spoken near Lake Victoria \u0096 namely Luganda, Shi, Kinande, Haya, and Runyankore \u0096 the basic underlying tone contrast is between a falling tone and no tone (i.e. H?L vs. \u00d8), rather than the H vs. \u00d8 contrast normally posited for other Bantu languages. Evidence for this comes from a range of different phenomena which require the presence of a L tone following a H tone. These include surface falling tones (Luganda, Shi, Kinande, Haya, Runyankore), downstep (Luganda, Shi), leftward H tone shift (Kinande), and the blocking of intonational H tones (Luganda, Kinande). All of these phenomena, I argue, may be viewed as consequences of different repairs of underlying H?L.<\/p>\n<p>Positing underlying H?L requires that certain well known tonal processes be re-examined. In particular, Meeussen\u0092s Rule \u0096 normally described as a process by which H lowers to L (or deletes entirely) after another H tone (H-H ? H-L) \u0096 must be recast as a rule in which a falling tone simplifies to L either following another falling tone (H?L-H?L ? H?L-L) or simply following a L tone (L-H?L ? L-L) (Hyman and Katamba, 1993). I argue that this latter reformulation, rather than being an unwarranted complication of Meeussne\u0092s Rule, actually produces a number of positive results, allowing us to explain cases of tonal lowering which are otherwise entirely mysterious. These results, which are entirely independent of the original motivations for underlying HL, provide strong additional support for it.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Patrick Jones (Harvard) Title: Underlying falling tones in Interlacustrine Bantu, and their implications for Meeussen\u0092s rule Date: Monday, April 13th Time: 5-6:30 Place: 32D-831 In this talk, I argue that in a number of Bantu languages spoken near Lake Victoria \u0096 namely Luganda, Shi, Kinande, Haya, and Runyankore \u0096 the basic underlying tone contrast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}