Lexical tone in Deori: loss, contrast and word based alignment

• Published in: Papers in Historical Phonology Vol. 2; pp. 51 - 87
• Main Authors: Mahanta, Shakuntala, Dutta, Indranil, Acharyya, Prarthana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 18.07.2017

In this paper we investigate the existence of tones in Deori, a language which is historically known to have had tonal distinctions. In a study, 5 speakers were recorded for their production of potential lexical tones in a list of 34 words, and a list of 54 monosyllabic roots were recorded for a vow...