Dom
doa (domm1246)
Nuclear Trans New Guinea (nucl1709) > Kuman-Dom-Gunaa (kuma1279)
Papunesia
L1 speakers:
L2 speakers:
Last modified: 2025-05-15 16:19 by vvydrin
2. Prosodic units
3. Tonal inventory
3.2 Inventory of tonemes
H
[ H ]
toneme

Criteria:

  • The Tonal Morpheme Criterion
  • The Activity Criterion

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HL
[ H L ]
toneme

Criteria:

  • The Extensibility Criterion
  • The Non-Compositionality Criterion
  • The Activity Criterion

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LH
[ L H ]
toneme

Criteria:

  • The Extensibility Criterion
  • The Non-Compositionality Criterion
  • The Tonal Morpheme Criterion
  • The Activity Criterion

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4. Tonotactics
4.3. Toneless syllables
5. Stress and tone
6. Tonal Rules
Tonal Spread
tonal spread
[T] . > [T .] / (word (root _) (suffix _))

When a toneless suffix (or a tone-bearing suffix that fails to impose its toneme) is attached, the toneme supplied by the root is associated to the whole prosodic word.

Clitic Toneme Deletion
toneme deletion
[H|LH .+] [T .+] > [H|LH.+] .+ / (word_)(clitic_)

Most clitics lose their toneme when attached to a word carrying a H or LH toneme.

Phrasal Toneme Deletion (in NP)
toneme deletion
[H|LH .+] [T .+] > [H|LH.+] .+ / (modifier_)(noun_)

A nominal prosodic word loses its toneme when preceded by a nominal modifier carrying a LH or H toneme. Tida’s wording suggest that application of this rule is optional.

Phrasal Toneme Deletion (in reduplication)
tonal spread
[H|LH .+] [H|LH .+] > [H|LH.+] .+ / (RDP_)(noun|adjective_)

When a noun or adjective carrying a LH or H toneme is reduplicated, the second repetition loses its toneme. Tida’s wording suggest that application of this rule is optional.

7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones
7.1. Grammatical tonal morphemes
7.3. Lexical tones
Miscellaneous
10. Tonal notation in the writing
Analytical report (fulltext)

A detailed analytical report on the tonal system of Dom is available as a preprint at Zenodo.