Situating Blackfoot within a typology of (mobile) boundary tone grammars

We propose that boundary tones are best understood as derived from the interaction of constraints introduce at certain levels prosodic hierarchy and govern alignment those to segmental material. On this decomposition classic notion a tone, we expect find languages in which tone introduced by constituent surfaces away edge constituent. refer these 'mobile' tones. Informed quantitative analysis pitch contours, argue Blackfoot is mobile language. provide grammar account for pattern, where L word before H docked stress syllable, situate within mini-typology predicted re-ranking proposed constraints.