[公告] 清華大學語言所九十七學年專題演講四
**國立清華大學語言所九十七學年專題演講四**
演講者: Katia Chirkova (CNRS, CRLAO)
Alexis Michaud (CNRS, LACITO)
演講題目: Approaching the prosodic system of Shǐxīng1
時間: 2008.11.26 (星期三) 12:30
地點: 人社院語言所研討室(C519室)
摘要:
The present approach to the prosodic system of Shixing, a Tibeto-Burman
language spoken in the South-West of China, aims to bring out the
combinatorial properties of its lexical tones through systematic
manipulations of nouns and verbs. Shixing is phonologically monosyllabic,
with two types of monosyllables: (i) lexically specified for tone (roots),
exhibiting a three-way tonal contrast between high (H), low (L) and falling
(HL) tones; and (ii) toneless (affixes and clitics). Units of two syllables
or more (words and phrases) are formed out of these two types of
monosyllables– viz. tonally specified and toneless–, and exhibit three
contrastive tone patterns, similar to those of monosyllables– viz. /H/, /L/
and /HL/.
The domain for contrastive tone patterns in Shixing obtains at the
intersection of lexicon and grammar; it is the phonological word in the
lexicon and the phonological phrase in the utterance. We propose that the
likeness of the tone patterns observed on phonological words and
phonological phrases is due to the similarity of the processes of tone
pattern derivation operating at both levels: these processes involve either
(i) two elements, of which each has its own tone pattern, or (ii) two
elements, of which one is specified for tone and the other is toneless.
Overall, two rules apply in determining the resulting tone pattern for a
unit of two syllables or more. Rule 1: The tone pattern of the first element
decides the tone pattern of the resulting combination. Rule 2: /L/ and /HL/
neutralize to /L/.
We discuss the exact application of these rules on the basis of
combinations of tonally specified and toneless elements, bringing out
additional regularities of the system. We also set out hypotheses concerning
the prototypical domain for tone rule application in Shixing, as well as
the domain above it– that of stress-related phenomena.
The article is concluded by a summary of the organization of the tonal
system of Shixing– including a re-analysis of /HL/ as accent. Two
appendices provide (i) information about the language materials and
experimental setup, and (ii) one transcribed traditional Shixing story so
as to facilitate the reader’s evaluation of the proposed analysis.
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