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- Title
Contrastive foot structure in Franconian tone-accent dialects.
- Authors
Köhnlein, Björn
- Abstract
Franconian has a contrast between two tone accents, commonly referred to as Accent 1 and Accent 2. Traditional autosegmental analyses of the phenomenon suggest that this opposition derives from the presence of lexical tone. In contrast to this 'tonal approach', I argue that the Franconian accent contrast is based on contrastive foot structure - there is no tone in the lexicon. This 'metrical approach' not only accounts for the tonal differences between the accents, but also captures a variety of facts that are hard to incorporate into a synchronic tonal analysis, involving morphological alternations between Accent 1 and Accent 2, as well as the effects of vowel duration, vowel quality and consonant quality on accentclass membership. The metrical analysis of these patterns is in line with similar approaches to tone-accent contrasts in North Germanic and Scottish Gaelic.
- Subjects
FRANCONIA (Germany); TONE (Phonetics); STRESS (Linguistics); DIALECTS; AUTOSEGMENTAL theory (Linguistics)
- Publication
Phonology, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0952-6757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S095267571600004X