A phonological account of Tlapanec (Mè’phàà) tonal alternation

Uchihara, Hiroto; Cano, Gregorio Tiburcio

doi:10.1017/s002222671900032x

Cited by 3 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 53 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…There are many other cases of grammatical tone analysed in the literature as item-based. Not represented in the case studies presented here are American tone languages; for an example of an item-based analysis of an American tonal language, see Uchihara & Cano (2020) on Tlapanec.…”

Section: Item-based Grammatical Tonementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These approaches include, among others, Indexed Constraint Theory, which allows for item-based morphemes as well as morpheme-specific constraints that result in morpheme-specific phonological processes (Itô & Mester 1999; Pater 2009), and Cophonology Theory, which allows for item-based morphemes as well as morpheme-specific or construction-specific phonological grammars (Orgun 1996; Anttila 2002; Inkelas & Zoll 2005, 2007). See Uchihara & Cano (2020: §1.2) for a recent overview of process-based approaches, and an example implementation of a mixed item-and-process approach. Approaches that allow for morpheme-specific processes are in stark contrast to those which assume that all morphology is item-based, such as Bye & Svenonius (2012), mentioned above 2…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article follows a recent line of work adopting the view that morphology need not be fully item-based or fully process-based. For example, Uchihara & Cano (2020: 810) assume that ‘productive and automatic’ alternations are derived through items subject to phonological manipulation, while also allowing for the existence of morphologically specific phonological processes. Here, I formalise the co-existence of item-based and process-based morphology in CbP (Sande 2019; Sande et al 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

Sande

2022

Phonology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article considers the question of what constitutes item-based morphology, with a specific look at grammatical tone. Numerous case studies of grammatical tone are examined in light of the debate on whether morphology is item-based or process-based. In each case, tonal alternations are an exponent, sometimes the sole exponent, of some grammatical feature. Two of the case studies are examples of grammatical tone that can straightforwardly be analysed as involving concatenated morphophonological forms; however, in other cases, the grammatical tone cannot be reduced to the concatenation of a tonal affix or phonological feature with some stem. The latter type cannot straightforwardly be analysed as item-based, but if still phonologically predictable and productive, is not satisfactorily analysed as suppletive. This article suggests a set of diagnostics that can be used to determine whether a given phenomenon is best analysed as item-based, process-based or suppletive. Then, an analysis is presented in Cophonologies by Phase (CbP), where morphosyntactic features can be mapped not only to underlying phonological items, but also to morpheme-specific constraint weight adjustments. CbP allows for what may have been traditionally called item-based and process-based morphology to co-exist in a single framework.

show abstract

Section: Item-based Grammatical Tonementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

Sande

2022

Phonology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Analogy in Inflection

Lindsay-Smith,

Baerman,

Beniamine

et al. 2024

Annu. Rev. Linguist.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Analogy has returned to prominence in the field of inflectional morphology as a basis for new explanations of inflectional productivity. Here we review the rising profile of analogy, identifying key theoretical and methodological developments, areas of success, and priorities for future work. In morphological theory, work within so-called abstractive approaches places analogy at the center of productive processes, though significant conceptual and technical details remain to be settled. The computational modeling of inflectional analogy has a rich and diverse history, and attention is now increasingly directed to understanding inflectional systems through their internal complexity and cross-linguistic diversity. A tension exists between the prima facie promise of analogy to lead to new explanations and its relative lack of theoretical articulation. We bring this to light as we examine questions regarding inflectional defectiveness and whether analogy is reducible to grammar optimization resulting from simplicity biases in learning and language use. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 10 is January 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

show abstract

Foot-based allomorphy in Tlapanec (Mè’phàà)

Uchihara

Cano

2021

Linguistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Tlapanec (Mè’phàà), an Otomanguean language spoken in Mexico, has several allomorphic alternations which are sensitive to the number of syllables of the stem (monosyllabic vs. disyllabic). We argue that these alternations are motivated by the foot structure which consists of two syllables, and that such alternations can be captured by subcategorization frames. An alternative, P » M analysis is also provided, where the allomorphic alternations are motivated by markedness constraints, namely *(tV.ˈσ), which avoids [t] in the weak position of the foot. These two approaches will be compared, and it will be argued that a subcategorization approach is more adequate than a P » M analysis.

show abstract

A phonological account of Tlapanec (Mè’phàà) tonal alternation

Cited by 3 publications

References 53 publications

Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

Is grammatical tone item-based or process-based?

Analogy in Inflection

Foot-based allomorphy in Tlapanec (Mè’phàà)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About