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1. Historical Comparative Acoustics and Prosodic Reanalysis: The Case of Tibetan Prosodic Typology: State of the Art and Future Prospects February 24-26, 2010 Berlin, German Nancy J. Caplow University of North Texas [email_address]

3. Methods

4. History

8. Comparing monosyllabic words ‘ arrow’ mda′ ‘ horse’ rta ‘ fire’ me / myi ‘ medicine’ sman Archaic Dialects Innovative Dialects Nda ɕta Nda xta ta̱ tā me sman nyi ʰmɛn me̱ mē

9. Dialects

18. Tournadre and Dorje 2003

19. after Tournadre and Dorje 2003 Rebkong Amdo Balti Tokpe Gola

25. Disyllabic Non-verbs

26. Tone in Disyllabic Non-Verbs willow tree lcang.ma bridge zam.pa brain klad.pa Balti (West) Amdo (East) ɬtʃa χ .'ma tʃāŋ.mā Tokpe Gola (Central) xtʃaŋ.'ma zam.'pa sa̱m.pā sam.'pa xlat.'pa lɛ̄t.tā ᵊ lai.'pa nak.'po sar.'pʰa na̱k.pū sām.pā nox.' χ u sʰo.'ma black nag.po new gsar.pa

30. Tone vs. Stress in Disyllabic Non-Verbs willow tree lcang.ma bridge zam.pa brain klad.pa black nag.po new gsar.pa Balti (West) Amdo (East) ɬtʃa χ .'ma tʃāŋ.mā Tokpe Gola (Central) xtʃaŋ.'ma zam.'pa sa̱m.pā sam.'pa xlat.'pa lɛ̄t.tā ᵊ lai.'pa nak.'po sar.'pʰa na̱k.pū sām.pā nox.' χ u sʰo.'ma

37. Minimal pairs for stress in Balti N V N V N V A V brain to be tired rope to grind bread to carry rare to clothe xlat.'pa 'xlat. pa tʰak.'pa 'tʰak. pa kʰur.'pa 'kʰur. pa ʂkøn.'mo 'skøn.ma

38. Borrowed nouns in Balti hotel teacher school film hospital ho.'ʈɨl ʈi.'tʃɚ su.'kul ɸi.'lim hɑs.pɨ.'ʈal

39. Disyllabic words in Amdo willow tree star shooting star new flat N + verbalizer: (to) snow (to) answer (to) shoot an arrow lcang.ma skar.ma skar.zla leb.leb gangs.babs lan.gyab mda′.phen

43. Amdo ‘willow tree’ σ 2 slope = -33 Hz / 100msec

45. Balti nouns: average pitch (Hz)

46. Balti nouns: average pitch (Hz)

48. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

49. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

51. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

52. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

54. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

55. Amdo nouns: average pitch (Hz)

57. Amdo ‘willow tree’ σ 2 slope = -33 Hz / 100msec

58. AR_05 nouns / isolation: pitch slope

59. AR_05 nouns / frame: pitch slope

60. AR_05 nouns: pitch diff vs. slope diff

64. Balti nouns (isolation forms): Intensity

65. Balti nouns (same height): Intensity

66. Amdo nouns (isolation forms): Intensity

67. Amdo nouns (frame forms): Intensity

68. Amdo nouns (same height): Intensity

71. Solution to the puzzle of tone in disyllabic non-verbs in the tonal dialects of Tibetan

72. Questions?