Markedness, Faithfulness, and the Typology of Two-height Tone Systems
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Markedness, Faithfulness, and the Typology of Two-Height Tone Systems
In this paper, I explore the possibility of typologizing two-height tone systems based on markedness. Drawing from a current database of 650 tone systems (of which over 400 are twoheight), I will first confirm that two-height systems may be “equipollent” /H, L/, “privative” /H/ or /L/ vs. Ø — or both, /H, L/ vs. Ø. I demonstrate that “markedness as faithfulness” (Pulleyblank 2004) and “faithful...
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عنوان ژورنال: UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2768-5047
DOI: 10.5070/p719h6t4nn