{"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":"2014-09-03T02:26:18Z","date_accepted":"2014-09-03T02:26:18Z","date_published":"2013-01-15T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/34917/galley/26034/download/"}]}