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Bruggeman, Anna, Roettger, Timo B. and Grice, Martine ORCID: 0000-0003-4973-4059 (2017). Question Word Intonation in Tashlhiyt Berber: Is 'high' good enough? Lab. Phonol., 8 (1). LONDON: UBIQUITY PRESS LTD. ISSN 1868-6354

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Abstract

The present study investigates the intonational marking of question words (qwords) in Tashlhiyt Berber. The first part of the study identifies a number of possible prosodic patterns on qwords as employed in conversational contexts. When they occur in a direct interrogative, qwords are marked with a rise in pitch towards a H(igh) target and a subsequent fall. By contrast, when the qword is embedded, no tonal targets occur on it. The second part consists of a detailed investigation of the alignment and scaling of qwords in utterance-initial position and in narrow focus. While the H target is consistently present somewhere on the qword, neither a local F0 maximum nor a high plateau region is characterized by stable alignment with any specific position in the segmental string. Scaling of the starting point (% L) and endpoint (H) of the rise characteristic of the qword exhibited a dependency on alignment: The rise is somewhat truncated if the peak is aligned early in the word. This study's results shed more light on the intonation system of -Tashlhiyt and support earlier findings suggesting that tonal placement in this language is prone to a typologically unusual degree of variability.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bruggeman, Anna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Roettger, Timo B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Grice, Martine UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-4059 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-236342
DOI:	10.5334/labphon.79
Journal or Publication Title:	Lab. Phonol.
Volume:	8
Number:	1
Date:	2017
Publisher:	UBIQUITY PRESS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1868-6354
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Phonetik
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TONAL ALIGNMENT; PHONOLOGY; PITCH; PROMINENCE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23634