nonesuch 105: stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables
- Where found
- Ma’ya (South Halmahera-West New Guinea, Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian)
- Domain
- phonology
- Subdomain
- word-stress, tone
- Keywords
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- none
- Source
- Remijsen, ? (2001). In Wetzels, Field work and phonological theory. ???.
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. ???.