Non-convergence of pitch and duration: Word-prosody of Garo

A Sangma, Cheman Baira

Non-convergence of pitch and duration: Word-prosody of Garo

dc.contributor.advisor	Athanasopoulou, Angeliki
dc.contributor.author	A Sangma, Cheman Baira
dc.contributor.committeemember	Winters, Stephen
dc.contributor.committeemember	O'Brien, Mary
dc.date	2022-11
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-16T18:44:42Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-16T18:44:42Z
dc.date.issued	2022-09
dc.description.abstract	Garo is an understudied Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Northeast India. There is currently only an impressionistic description of its word prosody by Burling (2003) which says that it is a stress final language. Recent studies have highlighted problems with impressionistic descriptions of prosody (de Lacy, 2014), and methodological problems with some acoustic studies which do not control for confounds of sentence prominence (Gordon, 2014; Roettger & Gordon, 2017). Edge prominent languages also have added complexity about whether prominence should be analysed as metrical prominence or boundary effect (Jun, 1998; Jun & Fougeron, 2000). Keeping all of these facts in mind, a production study was designed to elicited target words in carrier sentences which controlled for confounds of higher level prosody following Athanasopoulou et al. (2021) and Vogel et al. (2017). Binary logistic regression conducted on the measurements of acoustic properties revealed that F0 is the cue for stress in Garo. I analysed the F0 pattern as an intonational pitch LH* where L associated to the first syllable and H* associates to the final syllable. The cue for stress in Garo is thus more specifically an association of intonational pitch accent. Due to the trisyllabic structure of the target words in this study, the foot structure could not be determined. The cues for stress were not found to be enhanced under focus and they were also found to be unaffected post-focally. The focus particle was found to add an IP boundary at the end of the focused constituent and additionally, it was found to upstep the L of the LH* intonational pitch accent. Therefore, the prosodic focus is present only with the focus particle in Garo. The findings of this study thus confirm that Garo has word stress on the final syllable signaled by F0. What separates Garo from other edge prominent languages is that it has F0 events on every prosodic word making it clear that it has stress. The prosodic expression of focus is also only present with the focus particle which makes it similar to other languages with morphosyntactic ways of expressing focus.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	A Sangma, C. B. (2022). Non-convergence of pitch and duration: word-prosody of Garo (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115227
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40246
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Phonology	en_US
dc.subject	Phonetics	en_US
dc.subject	Laboratory Phonology	en_US
dc.subject	Garo	en_US
dc.subject	Sino-Tibetan	en_US
dc.subject	Word-stress	en_US
dc.subject	Metrical stress theory	en_US
dc.subject	Boundary phenomenon	en_US
dc.subject	F0	en_US
dc.subject	Focus	en_US
dc.subject	Post-focal compression	en_US
dc.subject	Focus particle	en_US
dc.subject	Morphosyntactic focus marking	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Linguistics	en_US
dc.title	Non-convergence of pitch and duration: Word-prosody of Garo	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Linguistics	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (MA)	en_US
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