A new approach to tone in Luganda  

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Katamba, Francis ; Hyman M. Larry,

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 69 no. 1 (Mar. 1993), page 34-67.
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Since McCawley 1970. the Luganda tone system has been well known for its property' of allowing at most one H[igh] to L[ow] pitch drop per word. To account for this property, the underlying system has been analyzed both in terms of underlying accents of various kinds (e.g. diacritic) and in terms of underlying tone (e.g. H vs. 6). Most accentual proposals, however, fail to account for the fact that THREE marks are necessary to char- acterize the high to low 'melody': a mark for the first H mora, a mark for the place of the H-to-L drop, and a mark for the place of the last L mora. After evaluating previous accentual and tonal analyses, we present a new approach to tone in Luganda that in- tegrates tone and accent in the following way: (i) Accent in Luganda consists of des- ignating certain moras as metrically strong (and hence capable of attracting tone); (ii) Tone in Luganda consists of lexical and grammatical occurrences of underlying HL contours (or 'potential pitch drops'). This new analysis, which continues to recognize the importance of the H to L pitch drop, provides additional evidence for the coexistence of tone and accent, which may interact in complex ways in the same language.*

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