Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara

In recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara. Internal and comparative evidence is presented that the vowel feature Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) has had an initiating role in to...

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Autor principal:	Torben Andersen
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1986
Materias:	tone Lugbara [ATR] pitch vowels Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:397fea6449df48139d085a53ee3cf4952021-11-19T03:55:18ZTone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara10.32473/sal.v17i1.1074920039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/397fea6449df48139d085a53ee3cf4951986-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107492https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XIn recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara. Internal and comparative evidence is presented that the vowel feature Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) has had an initiating role in tone splitting in Western Lugbara. It is demonstrated tha.t the pitch of a vowel with a high tone was raised if the vowel was [+ATR], and it is suggested that the resulting tonal allophony was later phonemicized due to vowel merger and reduction or loss of segments.Torben AndersenLibraryPress@UFarticletoneLugbara[ATR]pitchvowelsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 17, Iss 1 (1986)
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topic	tone Lugbara [ATR] pitch vowels Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	tone Lugbara [ATR] pitch vowels Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Torben Andersen Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
description	In recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara. Internal and comparative evidence is presented that the vowel feature Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) has had an initiating role in tone splitting in Western Lugbara. It is demonstrated tha.t the pitch of a vowel with a high tone was raised if the vowel was [+ATR], and it is suggested that the resulting tonal allophony was later phonemicized due to vowel merger and reduction or loss of segments.
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title	Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
title_short	Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
title_full	Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
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publisher	LibraryPress@UF
publishDate	1986
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Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara

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