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A Critique Of Some Tone Universals Proposed By Woo, Barbara E. Hollenbach
A Critique Of Some Tone Universals Proposed By Woo, Barbara E. Hollenbach
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "In an unpublished doctoral dissertation written in 1969, Nancy Woo proposed a set of universal prosodic features. In brief, she states that a stress feature is needed (45), but not a length feature; all length is best treated as geminction (237). For tone, three features are needed: high, low, and modify (236). The feature 'modify' involves some component besides pitch, and is needed for languages with more than three pitch levels (251). All tone languages are register systems; contours are best treated as sequences of registers, each on a separate sonorant segment (141). She illustrated her thesis …