ThoT Database
Bouyei
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1. General Information
2. Prosodic Units
3. Tonal Inventory
3.2. Inventory of tonemes
4. Tonotactics
5. Stress and Tone
6. Tonal Rules
7. Grammatical Tones
Miscellaneous
Bouyei
pcc (bouy1240)
Tai-Kadai (taik1256) > Northern Tai (nort3189)
Eurasia
L1 speakers:
L2 speakers:
Author of the analytical report
Reponsible project member
Kirill Maslinsky
Valentin Vydrin
Dmitry Gerasimov
Elena Perekhvalskaia
Lora Litvinova
Dialect that served as a primary data source
Giay (giay1234)
Hezhang Buyi (hezh1245)
Qianxi (qian1260)
Qiannan (qian1265)
Qianzhong (qian1266)
Last modified: 2024-08-27 19:41 by vvydrin
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2. Prosodic units
TBU
no info
syllable
mora
Language has a prosodic foot
no info
yes
no
Does prosodic foot play a role in establishing boundaries of tonal spans?
no info
yes
no
3. Tonal inventory
Number of tonal levels
2 (H L)
3 (H M L)
4 (xH H L xL)
5 (xH H M L xL)
6 (xxH xH H L xL xxL)
4 (H M L xL)
4 (xH H M L)
Pitch-related phenomena that serve as tonemic components
D (downstep)
Downdrift
no info
yes
no
Non-automatic downstep
no info
yes
no
3.2 Inventory of tonemes
4. Tonotactics
Minimal tonal span size
0
1/2
1
2
3
Maximal tonal span size
1
2
3
4
unlimited
Which boundaries can appear inside a tonal span (select all relevant)
none
mora
syllable
foot
morpheme
word
Tonal span prototypically coincides with what unit?
none
mora
syllable
foot
morpheme
word
Describe cases when tonal span may be larger than proto unit
Describe cases when tonal span may be smaller than proto unit
4.3. Toneless syllables
Superficially toneless syllables (not included in any tonal span)
no info
yes
no
How toneless syllables are tonalized
obtains a default tone (which is not a toneme)
tonalized through polarization
other
Toneless morphemes
no info
yes
no
Default tonal level that is assigned to toneless units
5. Stress and tone
Culminativity
no info
yes
no
Obligatority
no info
yes
no
Stress
no info
yes
no
Is tonal span position predictable given the position of the stress?
no info
yes
no
6. Tonal Rules
7. Grammatical Tones
Does language have grammatical tonal morphemes?
no info
yes
no
Does language have floating grammatical tones?
no info
yes
no
Are there tonal morphemes that combine a segment with a tonal operation outside of the segment?
no info
yes
no
Are there tonal morphemes that contain more than one toneme?
no info
yes
no
Estimated number of grammatical tonal morphemes in a language
What kinds of grammatical meanings are expressed with the help of tonal morphemes
inflectional
derivational
syntactic
Grammatical tones are realized on words of the following parts of speech:
noun
verb
adjective
pronoun
numeral
adverb
auxiliary
other
Miscellaneous
8. Tonal classes of words
Does tonal distribution depend on word classes?
no info
yes
no
10. Tonal notation in the writing
Are tones marked in the practical orthography of the language?
tones marked
tones not marked
tones partially marked
tonal information is present indirectly
unwritten language