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Direct linkMatsukawa, Kosuke – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Chicahuaxtla Triqui (Otomanguean, Mexico) is one of the rare tone languages with five contrastive level tones and its underlying tone system is even more complicated than its surface five-level tone system. The complexity of its underlying tone system has developed through the historical tone shifts from Proto-Triqui. The surface tone system of…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Phonology
Tejada, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines floating tones and tone gesture deactivation in Sierra Juarez Zapotec (SJZ), and provides an Optimality Theoretic account of tonal spreading and placement using insights from Articulatory Phonology. While the data portion of the dissertation is drawn from SJZ, the approach has broader implications for theories of tonal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Phonology
Beal, Heather D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation describes the segments and tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico virtually undescribed in the literature with the exception of Pike (1956). The preliminary work done by Pike and subsequent analyses by Goldsmith (1990) and Pizer (1994) are reviewed giving evidence that the system is complex and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Syllables, Phonemes
