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Article Dans Une Revue Eastling / Dongfang yuyanxue Année : 2007

Zai zhongyin yu shengdiao de lianxuti shang kan Shixingyu (Between stress and tone: Tones in Shixing and other Qiangic languages)

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Shixing, a little-studied language of Western Sichuan, is currently classified within the Qiangic subgroup of Tibeto-Burman languages. Previous studies (Sun 1983, Huang and Renzeng 1991) describe this language as tonal and claim it possesses these two characteristics: (1) among its four tones (55, 53, 35 and 33), only the former three contrast on monosyllables, whereas the fourth appears only in polysyllabic words; (2) its tones are not stable and often change in natural speech flow. The author's fieldwork in 2005 and 2006 confirms these two observations and uncovers a prosodic system with distinctive pitch (here analyzed as word-tone). This system is in many respects similar to those described for other Qiangic languages, such as Puxi Lavrung, Caodeng rGyal-rong and Shuitang Qiang, interpreted by Sun (2005) and Evans (2006) as combining prototypical properties of tone and accent. An examination of previous descriptions of tonal systems of other Qiangic languages shows that the same analysis in terms of tone and accent applies to the entire Qiangic subgroup. This combination of tonal and accentual features is treated by the author as an areal feature of Western Sichuan.
属藏缅语族羌语支南支的史兴语(又称旭米藏语)分布在四川省凉山州木里县水洛乡部分村寨,使用人口大约2000人。 史兴语是有声调的语言,据孙宏开(1983)与黄布凡和仁增旺姆(1991)的介绍,其声调具备如下两个特点: 1. 史兴语四个声调(高平:55、高降:53、中升:35和中平:33)当中,只有前三者才呈现声调对立,而最后一个只出现在双音节和多音节词中; 2. 史兴语声调往往受连读变调和语气影响而有变化,在句中不大稳定。 在2005和2006年的田野调查资料的基础上,本文重点分析史兴语声调系统这些特点,讨论史兴语声调的一些变调规则,并提出史兴语声调负载单位不是音节,而据初步分析认定应该是词。 作者注意到,史兴语韵律系统,类型十分类似于蒲西拉乌绒语、草登嘉戎语(孙天心2005)和水塘羌语(Evans 2006),可看做为结合声调与重音的典范特征。把这一分析框架扩展到整个羌语支其他的语言,作者提出,羌语支的语言都不以音节作为声调负载单位,一律可分析为属于声调与重音过渡阶段。作者认为,该特点有可能是超羌语支语言境界之外的川西地区的区域特征。
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hal-00162105 , version 1 (12-07-2007)
hal-00162105 , version 2 (14-11-2007)

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Ekaterina Chirkova. Zai zhongyin yu shengdiao de lianxuti shang kan Shixingyu (Between stress and tone: Tones in Shixing and other Qiangic languages). Eastling / Dongfang yuyanxue, 2007, 2, pp.143-152. ⟨hal-00162105v2⟩
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