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    "pk": 34917,
    "title": "Apatani phonology and lexicon, with a special focus on tone",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Despite being one of the most extensively researched of Eastern Himalayan languages, the basic morphological and phonological-prosodic properties of Apatani (Tibeto-Burman > Tani > Western) have not yet been adequately described. This article attempts such a description, focusing especially on interactions between segmental-syllabic phonology and tone in Apatani. We highlight three features in particular – vowel length, nasality and a glottal stop – which contribute to contrastively-weighted syllables in Apatani, which are consistently under-represented in previous descriptions of Apatani, and in absence of which tone in Apatani cannot be effectively analysed. We conclude that Apatani has two “underlying”, lexically-specified tone categories H and L, whose interaction with word structure and syllable weight produce a maximum of three “surface” pitch contours – level, falling and rising – on disyllabic phonological words. Two appendices provide a set of diagnostic procedures for the discovery and description of Apatani tone categories, as well as an Apatani lexicon of approximately one thousand entries.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "lexicon"
        },
        {
            "word": "tone"
        },
        {
            "word": "Morphophonology"
        },
        {
            "word": "Tibeto-Burman Languages"
        },
        {
            "word": "Tani Languages"
        },
        {
            "word": "Eastern Himalayan Languages"
        },
        {
            "word": "Apatani"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48s3p0z2",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mark",
            "middle_name": "W",
            "last_name": "Post",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Universität Bern",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tage",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kanno",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Future Generations",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-09-03T07:56:18+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2014-09-03T07:56:18+05:30",
    "date_published": "2013-01-15T13:30:00+05:30",
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}