The metrical dependency of tone placement in Optimality Theory∗
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Kim, Sun-Hoi. 2002. The metrical dependency of tone placement in Optimality Theory. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 8.1. 17-38. In this paper, I examine the metrical dependency of tone placement in OT. In Creek and Shingazidja, the determination of tone placement heavily draws on the special relationship between high tone and the metrically prominent position in the prosodic domain. In Shingazidja the metrically prominent position in the metrical phrase is tonally marked by high tone whereas the metrically prominent position in the prosodic word is tonally marked by high tone in Creek. In determining the metrically prominent position, the prosody of intonational phrase is metrically computed in Shingazidja whereas the prosody of prosodic word is metrically computed in Creek. In the metrical phrase in Shingazidja, the metrically prominent position is occupied by the rightmost vowel of the leftmost foot whereas the metrically prominent position is occupied by the rightmost vowel of the rightmost foot in the prosodic word in Creek. The ranking relationship of conflicting constraints formalizes the factors affecting the placement of high tone and the construction of metrical structure, and the parametric difference in the ranking relationship differentiates Shingazidja tonology from Creek tonology. (Hyupsung University)
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