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dc.contributor.authorDwyer, Arienne M.
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-28T03:50:01Z
dc.date.available2011-01-28T03:50:01Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationDwyer, Arienne M. 2008. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. In Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer, eds. Lessons from documented endangered languages. Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 111–128.
dc.identifier.isbn9789027229908
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/7055
dc.description.abstractAs the result of language contact in the northern Tibetan region, one variety of the Mongolic language Monguor (ISO 639-3: MJG) realizes prosodic accent as a rising pitch contour. Furthermore, a small number of homophones have come to be distinguished by tonal contour. Although at least two Turkic and Mongolic languages have occasionally copied the most salient tonal features of some Chinese loanwords, this is the first known example of both distinctive pitch contrasts in native lexemes, as well as default prosodic accent at the utterance level. Such an incipient tonal system offers insight into the relationship between often-contested types of prosodic accent as well as the effects of intensive language contact.
dc.description.sponsorshipVolkswagen Foundation, DOBES Programme; US National Science Foundation 0505289
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherBenjamins
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTypological Studies in Language;78
dc.titleTonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor
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