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Not in that tone (dear)!
Ora Mtushansky (SFL), Marijana Marelj
Serbo-Croatian is known to distinguish stress and (high) tone, with the former surfacing on the syllable preceding the latter (when available; coinciding with it otherwise). Given that each word cannot bear more than one stress or tone on the surface, two types of hypotheses have been proposed regarding the distribution of H: (a) morphemes are lexically specified to bear linked, floating or no H (Langston 1997), and (b) a morpheme can bear H or be toneless, with the eventual tone position determined by a rule (Inkelas & Zec 1988, Zec 1994, 1999, Zec & Zsiga 2010, Simonović & Kager 2020, Simonović 2022). We will consider tone “metatony” and its failure in verbal conjugation and derivation under both approaches and argue that the binary juxtaposition (±floating H) is not enough to explain the facts.
References (if needed):
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Langston, Keith. 1997. Pitch Accent in Croatian and Serbian: Towards an Autosegmental Analysis. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 5 (1), 80–116, http://www.jstor.org/stable/
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Simonović, Marko & Kager, René. 2020. Serbo-Croatian is developing stem-based prosody. Why so? In Marušič, Franc & Mišmaš, Petra & Žaucer, Rok (eds.). Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2017, 305–322. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/
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