Date of Award

8-1-2021

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Anthropology

Content Description

1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Lauren Clemens

Committee Members

Lee Bickmore, Laura McPherson, George A Broadwell

Keywords

Copala Triqui, Otomanguean, phonology, syntax, tone, Trique language, Indians of Mexico, Tone (Phonetics)

Subject Categories

Linguistics | Reading and Language | Social and Cultural Anthropology

Abstract

Copala Triqui is an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico with a highly complex tone system. In Copala Triqui, the lowering of tone from an upper register tone to a lower register tone acts as a conveyor of grammatical information. Tone lowering occurs across many syntactic environments in the language (Hollenbach, 1984; Broadwell; 2011; Broadwell, 2016; Broadwell & Clemens, 2017; Rodriguez & Clemens, 2020). In this thesis, I consider two aspects of tone lowering: i) the representation of tone lowering in the phonology and ii) the syntactic trigger for tone lowering across multiple environments.

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