Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor
Issue Date
2008Author
Dwyer, Arienne M.
Publisher
Benjamins
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
Is part of series
Typological Studies in Language;78
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As 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.
ISBN
9789027229908Collections
Citation
Dwyer, 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.
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