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Document Type

Book Chapter

Department/Program

English

Department

Linguistics

Publication Date

2023

Book Title

Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editor

Ksenia Bogomolets, Harry van der Hulst

First Page

274

Last Page

307

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840589.003.0009

Abstract

Muskogean languages are known for their highly agglutinative morphological structure and diverse prosodic features that interact in interesting and complex ways with the morphology. Muskogean languages are prosodically most famous for their morphological use of tone to convey verbal aspect and for their iambic metrical structure, which has different phonetic exponents depending on the language. Both prosodic structure and aspectual tone are sensitive to morphological structure in ways that suggest an intricate and to a large extent language-specific mapping between morphology and prosody. Beyond aspectual tone and metrical structure, variation is also observed in how Muskogean languages employ other prosodic systems involving tone, stress, and intonation. Comparison of morphological systems in the family provides insight into how prosodic divergence may be rooted in diachronic developments

ISBN

9780198840589

Publication Statement

This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript version, reproduced with permission of the publisher. "Prominence in Muskogean Languages" in ‘Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies edited by Ksenia Bogomolets and Harry van der Hulst, 2023, 274-307. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840589.003.0009. For permission to re-use this material, please visit https://global.oup.com/academic/rights.’

Prominence in Muskogean Languages


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