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In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opp...
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oapen-20.500.12657-308382024-03-25T09:51:42Z Tonal placement in Tashlhiyt B. Roettger, Timo berber languages pitch movements vowels voice tonal events Intonation (linguistics) Phonetics Phonology Prosody (linguistics) Schwa Sonorant Stress (linguistics) Syllable thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements. 2018-12-12 10:19:03 2020-04-01T13:15:02Z 2020-04-01T13:15:02Z 2017 book 641750 OCN: 1030816520 2363-5576 9783961100088;9783961100095 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30838 eng Studies in Laboratory Phonology application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 641750.pdf http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/137 Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.814472 10.5281/zenodo.814472 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 9783961100088;9783961100095 3 210 open access |
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In most languages, words contain vowels, elements of high intensity with rich harmonic structure, enabling the perceptual retrieval of pitch. By contrast, in Tashlhiyt, a Berber language, words can be composed entirely of voiceless segments. When an utterance consists of such words, the phonetic opportunity for the execution of intonational pitch movements is exceptionally limited. This book explores in a series of production and perception experiments how these typologically rare phonotactic patterns interact with intonational aspects of linguistic structure. It turns out that Tashlhiyt allows for a tremendously flexible placement of tonal events. Observed intonational structures can be conceived of as different solutions to a functional dilemma: The requirement to realise meaningful pitch movements in certain positions and the extent to which segments lend themselves to a clear manifestation of these pitch movements. |
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