Tonal Variation in Pyen

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dc.contributor.authorHornéy, Christina Scotte
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-26T22:24:20Z
dc.date.available2019-02-26T22:24:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-20
dc.description.abstractSeveral studies on the Tibeto-Burman Ngwi (Lolo) language family describe tone behavior in the framework of tonogenesis/historical reconstruction among the different languages, but synchronic tonal analyses are rare or are lacking in specifics. After laying out the phoneme inventory, this paper presents a look at the tone of Pyen, belonging to the Bisoid subgroup of Southern Ngwi, spoken in Myanmar. We focus especially on tone sandhi and phrase-final intonation. Its three contrastive tones, high, mid, and low, occur on every word type. Verbal suffixes differ from this pattern; they carry only the high or low tone, depending on the tone of either the preceding verb stem or any preceding tone-bearing suffix. A non-lexical intonational-phrase-final boundary tone is frequently used to express exclamation or emphasis, and is often found in conjunction with phrasal affixes indicating grammatical mood. This falling boundary tone is associated with a greater excursion of pitch than the low boundary tone found in neutral expressions.
dc.format.extent13 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6823
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52442
dc.subjectTibeto-Burman
dc.subjectSouthern Ngwi
dc.subjectphonology
dc.subjecttone
dc.subjectintonation
dc.subject.languagecodepyy
dc.subject.languagecodebzi
dc.subject.languagecodelwm
dc.subject.languagecodepho
dc.titleTonal Variation in Pyen
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage24
prism.number1
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage12
prism.volume12

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