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Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions

Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Typology, Interactions, and Implications Robin Banerji

Haverford College

April 18, 2015

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions

1 Defining the problem

What we know Modelling tone-stress interactions

2 Looking at Huichol

Preliminaries Data

3 Conclusions

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions What we know

Stress languages

We know how languages like English and Bengali work: (1) a. (´ σ) (P` aw)(t´ ucket) b. (´ σσ) (M` ıssis)(s´ ıppi) c. ((´ σσ) σ) ((Ch´ ero)(kee)) (Selkirk 1980) (2) r´ ajar king.gen ch´

• bir

picture.gen j´

• nno

for t´ aka money ‘money for the king’s pictures’ (Truckenbrodt 2002)

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions What we know

Tone languages

We know how languages like Y`

• r´

ub` a work: (3) a. d´ ı ‘to block’ b. di ‘to become’ c. d` ı ‘to tie’ (4) a. aw´

• ‘guinea fowl’

b. awo ‘secret’ c. aw`

• ‘eyeglasses’

d. ` awo ‘plate’ (Courtenay 1971)

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

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. . . Other languages

But what about a language like Japanese, with both tone and stress? (5) a. m´ akura ga ‘pillow.nom’ b. kok´

• ro ga ‘heart.nom’

c. atam´ a ga ‘head.nom’ d. sakana ga ‘fish.nom’ (Hyman 2009)

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions Modelling tone-stress interactions

Three models

Currently, three major theoretical frameworks are prevalent in the study of prosody: Isolation of tone and stress as independent phenomena (Inkelas and Zec 1988, among others). This approach is also taken in the pioneering work of Grimes (1959) in Huichol phonology. The “property-driven” approach (Hyman 2006; 2009; 2014), highly descriptive and considering each language’s stress and tone systems as self-contained, with a list of definable properties. The “accentual” approach, which posits an underlying mark of prominence on certain syllables (Abercrombie 1976; van der Hulst 2014).

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions Modelling tone-stress interactions

The accentual approach

Bears out the possibility of different phonetic and phonological effects of “prominence” in different languages. Tokyo Japanese accented syllables are realized with a HL contour docking to a single unpredictable, lexically underlying syllable in each word as seen in (5) Also accounts for English and Bengali observations

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions Preliminaries

Contextual background

Uto-Aztecan, about 44,788 speakers (INEGI 2010) Most recent previous work in Huichol tone, prosody, and intonation: Grimes (1959)

Posits 4 level tones 4-way tonal contrast is

• nly realized in the

nucleus of the phonological phrase; 2 can be realized on non-nuclear syllables Figure 1: Location of the Huichol homeland in Mexico

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions Preliminaries

Methodology

7 days of fieldwork with Huichol-speaking consultants in Mexico City Words elicited in isolation by lexical category Data recorded as high-quality audio recordings

Figure 2: Elicitation with Estrella, a Huichol speaker living in Mexico City

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions Data

Data

Huichol words have noticeable higher pitch on one syllable per elicited word 3 minimal pairs in the data: (6) a. t` am´ e tooth ‘tooth’ b. t´ am` e 1pl ‘we’ (7) a. n` eP´ en` a hear.1sg ‘I hear’ b. n` eP` en´ a hear.1sg.fut ‘I will hear’ (8) a. n` ak´ a ear ‘ear’ b. n´ ak` a (vulgar) (Carrillo and Banerji 2014)

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

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Paring apart (8)

(9) w` ak´ ar` 1 cf. Spanish /"Baka/ vaca ‘cow’ (10) k` ap´ ur` a cf. Spanish /"kabRa/ cabra ‘goat’ (Carrillo and Banerji 2014)

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions

Summary of main findings

Huichol is a word-accent language, where the correlate of accent is H tone Accent in Huichol is obligatory and culminative The mora is Huichol’s minimal prosodic domain and the tone-bearing unit Like in English (Selkirk 1980), there are two classes of affixes in Huichol:

Type I preserves the accentual structure of the root word, deletes accent on affix Type II preserves the accentual structure of the affix, deletes accent on root word

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

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Thank you!

Thanks also to: My language teachers Haverford College

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship The Hurford Humanities Center

• Dr. Brook Danielle Lillehaugen

The Tri-College Department of Linguistics

Universidad Nacional Aut´

• noma de M´

exico

• Dr. Francisco Arellanes Arellanes
• Dr. Lili´

an Guerrero

Cornell University

Danielle Burgess and the UnderLings

Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent

Defining the problem Looking at Huichol Conclusions

References

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de Lacy, Paul. (1999). Tone and prominence. Rutgers Optimality Archive: 333. Selkirk, Elisabeth O. 1980. The role of prosodic categories in English word stress. Linguistic inquiry: 563–605. Truckenbrodt, Hubert. 2002. Variation in p-phrasing in Bengali. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2(1): 259–303. For a complete bibliography, contact the author at rbanerji@haverford.edu Robin Banerji Haverford College Huichol (Wix´ arika) Word Accent