On Establishing Underlying Tonal Contrast

dc.contributor.author Snider, Keith
dc.date.accessioned 2014-11-10T18:53:19Z
dc.date.available 2014-11-10T18:53:19Z
dc.date.issued 2014-12
dc.description.abstract Phonological field work is largely about establishing contrast in comparable environments. The notion of phonological contrast, however, can be confusing, particularly in its application to tone analysis. Does it mean phonemic contrast in the structuralist sense, or does it mean underlying contrast in the generative sense? Many linguists, in publications otherwise written from a generative perspective, support underlying tonal contrasts with minimal pairs and other data that are based on structuralist criteria. This paper critiques how tonal contrast is often supported in the literature and demonstrates that many supposed minimal pairs are invalid from a generative perspective. It further demonstrates that because many morphemes in tone languages consist solely of floating tones, the potential for these cannot be ignored when establishing comparable phonological environments. *This paper is in the series How to Study a Tone Language, edited by Steven Bird and Larry Hyman
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citation Snider, Keith. 2014. On Establishing Underlying Tonal Contrast. Language Documentation & Conservation 8: 707—737
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9856211-2-4
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24622
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.title On Establishing Underlying Tonal Contrast
dc.type Article
prism.endingpage 737
prism.publicationname Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage 707
prism.volume 8
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