Date of Award

1-1-2012

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Anthropology

Content Description

1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

George A. Broadwell

Committee Members

Lee S. Bickmore, John S. Justeson

Keywords

Chicahuaxtla Triqui, Historical Linguistics, Otomanguean, Phonetics, Phonology, Tone, Trique language, Tone (Phonetics)

Subject Categories

Linguistics | Reading and Language

Abstract

Chicahuaxtla Triqui (Otomanguean, Mexico) is one of the rare tone languages with five contrastive level tones and its underlying tone system is even more complicated than its surface five-level tone system. The complexity of its underlying tone system has developed through the historical tone shifts from Proto-Triqui. The surface tone system of Chicahuaxtla Triqui is also unusually complicated and its complexity led to the insufficient analysis of the previous studies (e.g. Longacre 1952, 1957, 1959; Good 1978). To understand the tone system and tonal phonology of Chicahuaxtla Triqui, we must know their diachronic development from Proto-Triqui because historical tone shifts, which happened in Chicahuaxtla Triqui, added more complexity to the original tone system and tonal phonology of Proto-Triqui.

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