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Somali wordhood and its relationship to prosodic structure

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Author	Green, Christopher R. Morrison, Michelle E.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Previous “one tone per word” analyses of Somali wordhood fall short in a number of ways due to the morphological and prosodic complexity of the language. While the presence of a single accentual high tone is generally a good diagnostic for prosodic wordhood in the language, it is a poor predictor of grammatical wordhood. In this paper, we aim to refine the criteria needed to define both. We explore the culminative role played by tonal accent in the formation of prosodic words and the contributions of morphosyntactic and phonological phenomena in defining larger phrases that are sometimes considered single words in the language. We explore positive and negative correlations between prosodic and grammatical wordhood, and in doing so, we find that the differing accentual behavior of Somali words depends largely on the prosodic structure of their constituent morphemes and the position of these morphemes on a wordhood cline. We illustrate that while each maximal prosodic word in the language exhibits one tone, a minimal prosodic word is better defined in terms of its accentual properties. In addition, while prosodic and grammatical wordhood often align with one another, grammatical wordhood cannot be unambiguously defined based on tone or accent location.
Starting Page	3
Ending Page	32
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18715621
Journal	Morphology
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18715656
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-07-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Wordhood Prosody Cushitic Somali Prosodic word Grammatical word Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Phonology Sign Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language

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