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Bengali intonational phonology
- Abstract:
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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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
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0859
- ISSN:
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0167-806X
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2706
- Deposit date:
- 2009-03-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Copyright date:
- 1991
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article by clicking on 'Resolve this DOI' or via the publisher copy link on this record page. N. B. Professor Lahiri is now based at the Centre for Linguistics and Philology, University of Oxford.
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