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Dissertation
Units in Zhuokeji rGyalrong discourse: Prosody and grammar
2009
Overview
This study examines units of prosody and grammar in Zhuokeji rGyalrong (henceforth Zhuokeji), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by rGyalrong Tibetans in southwestern Sichuan, China. The present study explores how naturally occurring speech flow is organized into basic prosodic units in this language, and examines the grammatical taxonomy of these units. It is the first extensive research on prosody and grammar based on real-time speech in rGyalrong, as well as the first study of tone and intonation in a language that has a privative tonal system of zero versus falling tone. The analysis of Zhuokeji word prosody reveals that the language has a privative tonal system in which falling tone contrasts with zero. Tonal assignment is critically dependent on the metrical parsing of words into feet. The analysis of Zhuokeji intonation, on the other hand, involves three phonological features, namely phrasal rules, prosodic accent, and the boundary tone H%. Together these facts argue for a multi-layered model of prosodic structure that incorporates the syllable, word, foot, prosodic phrase, and intonation unit as domains for distinct yet interacting rules. Zhuokeji speech can be organized into IUs using related prosodic cues, the reliability of which has been confirmed by inter-rater reliability tests. The IUs are then coded for structural type. The distribution of these structural types shows that the preferred syntactic structure of the Zhuokeji IU is the clause. A surprisingly high proportion of multi-clausal IUs (31%) do not follow the “one clause per IU” tendency as observed by Chafe (1980) in English. Nonetheless, it has been shown that most of these seemingly anomalous cases could be accounted for by the proximity principle of iconicity, as well as strong links of rhetorical relations between the clauses within a multi-clausal IU.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ISBN
9781109329667, 1109329660
