Between Stress and Tone: Acoustic Evidence of Word Prominence in Kurtöp

dc.contributor.author Hyslop, Gwendolyn
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-02T22:16:41Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-02T22:16:41Z
dc.date.issued 2021-12
dc.description.abstract Classic typologies within prosody tend to treat ‘tone’ languages as being diametrically opposed to ‘stress’ languages. However, Hyman (2006) highlights several languages that can have both, including Seneca, Fasu, and Copala Trique. As language documentation advances and our acoustic methodologies in the field are further refined, we have seen this list continue to expand. The aim in this article is to further this research trajectory by presenting the correlates of stress in Kurtöp, a tonal Tibeto-Burman language. Kurtöp has a word-level tone system, in which high versus low tone is required on the first syllable of every word. Stress, or prosodic word-level prominence, is realised on the first syllable of a root. Thus, stress and tone usually occur on the same syllable; they are only separated from each other when the negative prefix triggers movement of the tone to the initial syllable, leaving a stressed but toneless second syllable. Based on data collected in the field from three speakers, this article shows that the primary correlate of stress is duration, not pitch, intensity, or expansion of vowel space.
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent 25
dc.identifier.citation Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2021. Between Stress and Tone: Acoustic Evidence of Word Prominence in Kurtöp. Language Documentation & Conservation 15: 551-575.
dc.identifier.issn 1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74668
dc.language.iso en-US
dc.publisher University of Hawaii Press
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States *
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ *
dc.subject Kurtokha language
dc.subject Tone (Phonetics)
dc.subject Tibeto-Burman languages
dc.subject Accents and accentuation
dc.title Between Stress and Tone: Acoustic Evidence of Word Prominence in Kurtöp
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 575
prism.publicationname Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage 551
prism.volume 15
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