@phdthesis{24336,
  address               = {Ann Arbor},
  author                = {Odden, David Arnold},
  pages                 = {vii+280},
  publisher             = {UMI},
  school                = {University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign},
  title                 = {Problems in Tone Assignment in Shona},
  year                  = {1981},
  abstract              = {In this work, I provide a synchronic grammar of tonal phenomena in the Karanga dialect of Shona, a Bantu language of Zimbabwe. This investigation is taken out within the framework of autosegmental phonology. In the first chapter, I review the literature on tone in Shona, and sketch the morphological structure of the language. In the second chapter, I investigate a number of tonological phenomena which are conditioned in part by word boundaries. I argue that the Elsewhere Condition is a necessary principle of language based of an analytical problem which develops in this chapter. I also argue that rule exception features may be assigned by rule, and demonstrate that the Unordered Rule Hypothesis is falsified by the data of Shona. In the third chapter, I consider problems which occur in accounting for the tonal rules of nominal prefixes. I argue for an autosegmental treatment of tone, based on a problem of stateability in the Associative Lowering rule. I also argue that the Elsewhere Condition is the only condition which properly assigns a disjunctive relationship between Associative Lowering and Associative Raising. In the fourth chapter, I discuss tonal problems in verbal prefixes. I motivate three central rules which account for the majority of forms, and argue that abstract contoured tones must be allowed at various stages of the grammar to account for violations of the conditions on the three core rules of prefixal tonology. I then discuss how the tone of verbal prefixes can be predicted by reference to morphosyntactic conditions. In the fifth chapter, I discuss tonal alternations in verbal stems. I discuss the tone pattern of H toned verb stems in assertive verbal forms, and consider a number of analyses which account for this pattern. I then discuss the tone pattern of nonassertive verbs, and argue there for an abstract tonal melody HHLB, which is associated with the verbal stem. I argue for various refinements of the mapping rule and the rule inserting this tonal melody. Finally, I consider a number of ideosyncratic tonal melodies employed in the perfective, subjunctive, and instrument nominalisations. I attempt to put these melodies in historical perspective with data from other Bantu languages.},
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  cfn                   = {africa\odden_shona1981_o.pdf},
  class_loc             = {PL8681},
  degree                = {PhD},
  delivered             = {africa\odden_shona1981_o.pdf},
  digital_formats       = {PDF 9.62Mb image-only PDF},
  document_type         = {B},
  fn                    = {africa\odden_shona1981_o.pdf, africa\odden_assignment1981.pdf, africa\odden_assignment1981_o.pdf, africa/odden_shona1981_o.pdf},
  guldemann_location    = {TG},
  hhtype                = {phonology},
  inlg                  = {English [eng]},
  keywords              = {;saf;zbw;lng;phn;tnl;bnt;s.10;ths;},
  lgcode                = {Karanga = Shona [sna]},
  macro_area            = {Africa},
  mpi_eva_library_shelf = {PL 8681 ODD 2007},
  mpifn                 = {shona_odden1981_o.pdf},
  oclc                  = {8324531},
  source                = {DAI-A 42/09, p. 3985, Mar 1982},
  src                   = {eballiso2009, guldemann, hh, mpieva, weball},
  subject               = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  subject_headings      = {Shona language – Phonology, Tone (Phonetics), Shona language – Phonology – Tone (Phonetics)},
  umi_id                = {8203544}
}