The Typology of Tone and Cushitic

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M. Mous
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Abstract

The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in  Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the criterion of obligatoriness of every word having a stressed unit is not valid for them. In Hyman’s (2006) typology these languages are (restricted) tone languages. Pitch as prominence marker does show stress-like tendencies of culminativity and demarcation in these languages which is why a label pitch-accent has been suggested. The tone properties are better explained by another dimension, namely the fact that the distinctive function of tone hardly plays a role at the lexical level but does play a role at the grammatical level
色调与软垫的类型学
目前声调类型学的维度对于理解库希特语的声调特性还不够深刻。一些缓冲语言的特点是“音高重音”,这些不能被认为是重音语言,因为每个单词都有一个重音单位的强制性标准对它们无效。在海曼(2006)的类型学中,这些语言是(受限制的)声调语言。作为突出标记的音高在这些语言中确实表现出类似重音的高潮和划分趋势,这就是为什么建议使用音高重音标签。另一个维度可以更好地解释声调的特性,即声调的独特功能在词汇层面几乎不起作用,但在语法层面却起作用
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