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- Title
A TONAL SEMI-REVERSAL IN FRANCONIAN DIALECTS: RULE A VS. RULE B.
- Authors
Köhnlein, Björn
- Abstract
This paper examines the genesis of a tonal semi-reversal in Franconian tone accent dialects, the so-called Rule A vs. Rule B. Contrary to the traditional assumption, the reversal takes place only under declarative intonation, but not in interrogatives. To account for the semi-reversal, I provide a scenario in which Rule A and Rule B derive from a common predecessor system, which I refer to as Rule 0. These novel findings have important consequences for our understanding of the accent genesis in general: I argue that a combination of my approach for the split with duration-based genesis scenarios leads to a plausible account. As the paper discusses in detail, it is problematic to adapt (previous) alternative proposals to the full data set.
- Subjects
VOCAL cues; VARIATION in language; FRANKISH law; INTONATION (Phonetics); SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0108-8416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/nowele.68.1.03koh