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Zusatztext Offers a wealth of innovatively analyzed data... that will make this typologically interesting language more accessible to linguistics of all profiles. Informationen zum Autor Hiroto Uchihara is Assistant Research Professor in the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in 2013. His research focuses primarily on the phonology and morphology of various Native American languages, particularly Cherokee and Zapotec, from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Klappentext This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which 6 possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It investigates the distribution and source of these patterns, the principles that determine their positions, and the nature of tonal alternations. Zusammenfassung This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which 6 possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It investigates the distribution and source of these patterns, the principles that determine their positions, and the nature of tonal alternations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Segmental inventory 3: Phonotactics and syllable structure 4: Overview of the tones and accents 5: Lowfall tone 6: Tonal phonology of H1 7: The source of H1 8: Historical source of H1 alignment 9: High tone on the final mora of the stem (H2) 10: Floating high tone from pre-pronominal prefixes (H3) 11: Superhigh accent 12: Typological properties of Cherokee tone and accent Appendix A: On tonicity Appendix B: Summary of phonological process and constraints References Index
