Melody learning and long-distance phonotactics in tone

Jardine, Adam

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“…. : mldy(HLHL) = HLHL, mldy(HLHLHL) = HLHLHL, mldy(HLHLHLHL) = HLHLHLHL, ad infinitum" (Jardine, 2020(Jardine, :1170). If we were to capture phonologically non-local interactions (like first-last tone harmony) literally via non-local constraints, this would drastically increase the power of the phonological module and consequently lessen its restrictiveness significantly.…”

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Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu

Rolle

Bickmore

2022

Morphology

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We present a case study of grammatical tone allomorphy in Cilungu (Bantu). Tense/Aspect/Mood designations (TAMs) are realized via co-exponence of prefixes, suffixes, and floating tones. In a minority of TAMs, there is allomorphy with the floating tones. For example, in the Recent Past one allomorph involves floating tone targeting the final mora of the stem ("Equation missing") versus one targeting the stem’s second mora ("Equation missing"2). For all such allomorphic TAMs, the alternation is conditioned by the tone of subject agreement markers (SMs) at the left edge of the word. If the SM is high-toned the "Equation missing" variant occurs, but if it is toneless then "Equation missing"2 occurs. We present two competing accounts of these data. Under a morphological account, we posit contextual realizational rules with multiple suppletive exponents conditioned by SM tone. In contrast, under a phonological account a ‘first-last tone harmony’ applies here, morphologically restricted to the context of SMs with a small set of TAMs. Such a harmony rule captures a generalization of these alternations: if the SM is high at the left edge then there is a grammatical high at the right edge, but if the left edge is toneless then grammatical tone does not fall on the right edge. We present several arguments in favor of the morphological analysis (suppletion) over a phonological one (harmony). Specifically, the patterns are not subject to phonological locality, other TAMs involving similar tone patterns are not subject to this harmony, and the proposed first-last tone harmony would be a highly phonologically-unnatural rule with little cross-linguistic support, and exceeding the computational properties of all well-known and established phonological operations. We conclude by discussing a major theoretical implication of the morphological account: this constitutes outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy, standardly argued to be unattested and/or impossible. Ultimately, we hold that under either account Cilungu presents a novel and important contribution to linguistic theory.

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Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu

Rolle

Bickmore

2022

Morphology

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“…Rolle & Bickmore (2022) interpret such globally sensitive patterns as suppletive allomorphy, and articulate the ramifications of this for linguistic theory with respect to morphological locality and directionality. Regardless of interpretation, non-local dependencies like this should be of major interest to linguists of several stripes (including the computationally minded, for whom first–last phonological harmony is said to be outside of what is possible in phonology; see Heinz & Idsardi 2013; Lai 2015; Jardine 2020).…”

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Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone

Lionnet,

McPherson,

Rolle

2022

Phonology

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Tone is distinct from other phonological phenomena both qualitatively and quantitatively (Hyman 2011), and has been instrumental in shaping phonological theory in many ways. However, the contributions to current linguistic theory of “grammatical tone’ (GT) – a type of non-concatenative morphology where a morpheme is expressed at least in part by tone and/or tone changes – have been less apparent. In this paper, we take stock of the types of GT patterns attested in the literature and the different theoretical treatments of GT that have been proposed to date. We show that GT is still to a large extent underexplored, and highlight the immense potential of the study of GT for improving our understanding of phonology and its outer limits. This paper serves as an introduction to the high-quality research articles collected in this special issue, which directly address how GT critically informs phonological theory and its current developments.

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Input and output locality and representation

Chandlee

Jardine

2021

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Using a rigorous, computational notion of locality, this paper evaluates one of the central motivations for autosegmental representations (ARs)-that they reduce longdistance processes to local ones. We analyze a variety of tone processes using two computational notions of locality: input strict locality as defined by Chandlee (2014) and Chandlee & Jardine (2019a) and a corresponding notion of output strict locality we call recursive strict locality. The results of our survey add to our understanding of the typology of tone patterns and the role of ARs in two key ways. First, they indicate that both input and output locality play a role in a comprehensive theory of tone. Second, they reveal the various mechanisms by which ARs render long-distance patterns local by disentangling the various properties these representations combine. The larger contribution then is a more detailed and nuanced exploration of the interaction of representation, locality, and computational complexity in the domain of tonal phonology.

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Melody learning and long-distance phonotactics in tone

Cited by 3 publications

References 45 publications

Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu

Outward-sensitive phonologically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy vs. first-last tone harmony in Cilungu

Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone

Input and output locality and representation

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