On tone in Tamang and neighbouring languages: synchrony and diachrony

Martine Mazaudon (1)

1 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale

For Tamang and the TGTM languages, and for the tonal dialects of Tibetan we make two claims:
1) The tone bearing unit is the morpheme or the word
2) Cooccurring laryngeal features are best analyzed as features of the tones.
The historical origin of these tones in segmental material at the beginning and the end of words is consistent with these synchronic claims.

Mots clés: tone; word-tone; voice quality; laryngeal features

Domaines: Linguistique

Martine Mazaudon. On tone in Tamang and neighbouring languages: synchrony and diachrony. Proceedings of the Symposium Cross-linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena, 2005, Tokyo, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. pp.79-96. ⟨halshs-00139489⟩