Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Hiroto Uchihara (Assistant Research Professor, Assistant Research Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.598kg
ISBN: 9780198739449
ISBN 10: 0198739443
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 03 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A captivating account of a strikingly complex prosodic system that should be of interest to any linguist. * Matthew Gordon, Anthropological Linguistics * Offers a wealth of innovatively analyzed data... that will make this typologically interesting language more accessible to linguistics of all profiles. * Edward J. Vajda, Word *
Offers a wealth of innovatively analyzed data... that will make this typologically interesting language more accessible to linguistics of all profiles. * Edward J. Vajda, Word * A captivating account of a strikingly complex prosodic system that should be of interest to any linguist. * Matthew Gordon, Anthropological Linguistics *
Author Information
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.
