The association of tones in Tashlhiyt Berber.

Martine Grice (1) , Röttger Timo B. (1) , Rachid Ridouane (2) , Cécile Fougeron (2)

1 IfL- Phonetik
2 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

In this study we investigate the nature and distribution of an Intonation Phrase medial H tone in Tashlhiyt Berber. We analyse it as a right edge tone of an Accentual Phrase with a secondary association to a syllable with a sonorant nucleus. In the absence of such a syllable in the target word, H may align with a transitional vocoid, although its location is highly variable. Since these vocoids have no phonological status, the distribution of H lies at the phonetics-phonology interface: when H has no secondary association, there could be phonetic pressure to make it audible.

Mots clés: tone bearing unit; Berber intonation; secondary association; tune-text association

Domaines: Linguistique

Martine Grice, Röttger Timo B., Rachid Ridouane, Cécile Fougeron. The association of tones in Tashlhiyt Berber.. ICPHS, 2011, China. pp.775 - 778. ⟨halshs-00677126⟩