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Conference Paper: Correlations between tonality and word order type
| Title | Correlations between tonality and word order type |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2013 |
| Citation | The 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT-10), Leipzig, Germany, 15-18 August 2013. How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Exploring the prosodic typology of language, Gil (1986) argues for extending the typology for metered verse to ordinary language based on 170 languages. Among the results observed is an indirect correlation between word order type and the presence of lexical tone: iambic languages tend to be VO and tonal, while trochaic languages tend to be OV and non-tonal. Gil’s hypothesis that the most basic distinction is between iambic and trochaic feet, however, cannot be tested using the World Atlas of Language Structures online (WALS) due to insufficient data; many languages with complex tone systems are arguably iambic (Thai, Chaozhou) or cannot be categorized as either iambic or trochaic (Cantonese). More explanatory factors are thus … |
| Description | Poster Presentation: abstract 105 |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192049 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Yiu, SSY | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Matthews, SJ | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-15T07:48:39Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2013-10-15T07:48:39Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT-10), Leipzig, Germany, 15-18 August 2013. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192049 | - |
| dc.description | Poster Presentation: abstract 105 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Exploring the prosodic typology of language, Gil (1986) argues for extending the typology for metered verse to ordinary language based on 170 languages. Among the results observed is an indirect correlation between word order type and the presence of lexical tone: iambic languages tend to be VO and tonal, while trochaic languages tend to be OV and non-tonal. Gil’s hypothesis that the most basic distinction is between iambic and trochaic feet, however, cannot be tested using the World Atlas of Language Structures online (WALS) due to insufficient data; many languages with complex tone systems are arguably iambic (Thai, Chaozhou) or cannot be categorized as either iambic or trochaic (Cantonese). More explanatory factors are thus … | - |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, ALT-10 | en_US |
| dc.title | Correlations between tonality and word order type | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Yiu, SSY: syutji@hku.hk | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Matthews, SJ: matthews@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Matthews, SJ=rp01207 | en_US |
| dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 223771 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 226255 | - |