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Prominence in Muskogean Languages
Gordon, Matthew K. Martin, Jack B.
Gordon, Matthew K.
Martin, Jack B.
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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
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2023-01-01
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Oxford University Press
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840589.003.0009