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9 February 2010

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Athabaskan Prosody

Edited by Sharon Hargus and Keren Rice
University of Washington / University of Toronto

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 269

2005. xii, 432 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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978 90 272 4783 4 / EUR 130.00 / USD 195.00
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This collection of articles on stress and tone in various Athabaskan languages will interest theoretical linguists and historically oriented linguists alike. The volume brings to light new data on the phonetics and/or phonology of prosody (stress, tone, intonation) in various Athabaskan languages, Chiricahua Apache, Dene Soun'liné, Jicarilla Apache, Sekani, Slave, Tahltan, Tanacross, Western Apache, and Witsuwit’en. As well, some contributions describe how prosody is to be reconstructed for Proto-Athabaskan, and how it evolved in some of the daughter languages.

Table of contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Keren Rice and Sharon Hargus
Part I. TONE
The historical development of tone: A pan-Athabaskan perspective on the phonology
Preface to Michael Krauss’ article
Keren Rice and Sharon Hargus
Athabaskan Tone (1979)
Michael E. Krauss
The historical development of tone: A phonetic perspective
The Phonetics of Athabaskan Tonogenesis
John Kingston
Case Studies
On Tone and Length in Taltan (Northern Athabaskan)
John Alderete
The Tonology of the Western Apache Noun Stem
Willem J. de Reuse
Properties of Tone in Dene Soun’liné
Suzanne Gessner
Pitch, Tone and Intonation in Tanacross
Gary Holton
Part II. PROMINENCE BEYOND TONE
A pan-Athabaskan perspective on stress
How stress shapes the stem-suffix complex in Athabaskan
Jeff Leer
Case Studies
Duration, Intonation and Prominence in Apache
Siri G. Tuttle
Prominence and the verb stem in Slave (Hare)
Keren Rice
A Corpus-based Approach to Tahltan Stress
John Alderete and Tanya Bob
Prosody in two Athabaskan languages of northern British Columbia
Sharon Hargus
Index

“As is clear from [this volume], Athabaskan presents the most carefully documented and best understood cases of tonogenesis outside of Southeast Asia. This will be a volume that all linguists interested in such phonological issues will want to own.”
Larry M. Hyman, Berkeley

“[...] an important contribution to the study of Athabaskan linguistics and, more generally, to research on American Indian languages [...] The diversity of topics explored in the book make it clear that Athabaskan languages provide fertile ground for examining a number of complex prosodic issues.”
Matthew Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, in Phonology, Vol.23:1 (2006)

Subject classification

Linguistics
Languages of North America
Phonetics
Phonology