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Bengali intonational phonology

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This paper proposes a phonological analysis of the Bengali intonational system, using a descriptive framework developed by Pierrehumbert (1980) and others. Our analysis bears on a number of theoretical points. We argue that the Bengali facts support a typology of intonational tones that includes only pitch accents and boundary tones, and that the docking sites for boundary tones are the phrase edges provided under the theory of the Prosodic Hierarchy (Selkirk 1980). We show that Bengali inton...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/BF00133326

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Institution:
"UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA"
Department:
Department of Linguistics
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Institution:
"Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands"
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Publisher:
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Springer Netherlands) Publisher's website
Journal:
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Journal website
Volume:
9
Issue:
1
Pages:
47-96
Publication date:
1991-02-01
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EISSN:
1573-0859
ISSN:
0167-806X
Language:
English
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ora:2706
Deposit date:
2009-03-24

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