Rara #105

Legacy number: 105

 Number  105
 Phenomenon  stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables
 Found in  Ma'ya (South Halmahera-West New Guinea, Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian)
 Domain  phonology — word-stress, tone
 Type  nonesuch
 Source  Remijsen, ? (2001). In Wetzels, Field work and phonological theory. ???.
 Violates  none

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Discussion
Notes
In those varieties of modern Germanic which are tonal (Continental Scandinavian, Rhine-Franconian German and Dutch) only stressed syllables have lexical tone. In an alternative analysis of Ma?ya (van der Leenden 19??), stress accent is assumed to be non-contrastively root-final. See further Wetzels 2001. Wetzels, W. Leo (2001). Field work and phonological theory. ???.
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
In those varieties of modern Germanic which are tonal (Continental Scandinavian, Rhine-Franconian German and Dutch) only stressed syllables have lexical tone.

In an alternative analysis of Ma'ya (van der Leenden 19??), stress accent is assumed to be non-contrastively root-final. See further Wetzels 2001.

Wetzels, W. Leo (2001). Field work and phonological theory. ???.