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Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (Hardcover)
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Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages, 3
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This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in
which six possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low,
high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It provides a
comprehensive description and analysis of these patterns, examining
their distribution, their source, the principles that determine
their positions, and the nature of tonal alternations. The tone and
accent of Oklahoma Cherokee displays some typologically unusual
features, such as the glottal stop as the historical source for
both high and lowfall tones, the coexistence of tonal and accentual
systems, the existence of multiple accentual systems, and the
morphosyntactic use of accents. Studies on tones in general have
focused mainly on analytical languages or languages with little
morphology, but Cherokee is unique in that it is polysynthetic at
the same time as tonal. The emergence of tones in Oklahoma Cherokee
is recent and its source is easily traceable, but the language has
already developed a complex tonal alignment and tonal phonology.
Hiroto Uchihara's description of tone and accent in Oklahoma
Cherokee will not only contribute to a deeper understanding of the
sound system of Cherokee, but will also advance the historical
study of Iroquoian languages as a whole, and the typological study
of tonal and accentual systems more generally.
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