|
TBU (Tone Bearing Unit) |
TBU |
2. Prosodic units |
13 |
mora / syllable |
|
Language has a prosodic foot |
FOOT |
2. Prosodic units |
13 |
no / yes |
|
Does prosodic foot play a role in establishing boundaries of tonal spans? |
FTSPAN |
2. Prosodic units |
10 |
no / yes |
|
Number of tonal levels |
NUMTL |
3. Tonal inventory |
12 |
2 / 3 / 4 / 5 |
|
Which tonal levels are present |
TL |
3. Tonal inventory |
12 |
H L / H M L / H M L xL / xH H M L xL |
|
Downdrift |
DOWNDRIFT |
3. Tonal inventory |
10 |
no / yes |
|
Non-automatic downstep |
DOWNSTEP |
3. Tonal inventory |
10 |
no / yes |
|
Number of tonemes |
NUMTON |
3. Tonal inventory |
11 |
1 / 2 / 3 / 6 |
|
Minimal tonal span size (in TBUs) |
MINTSPAN |
4. Tonotactics |
11 |
0.0 / 0.5 / 1.0 |
|
Maximal tonal span size (in TBUs) |
MAXTSPAN |
4. Tonotactics |
11 |
2.0 / 3.0 / 4.0 / inf |
|
Tonal span prototypically coincides with what unit? |
TD |
4. Tonotactics |
11 |
foot / mora / none / syllable / word |
|
Which boundaries can appear inside a tonal span |
TSPANBND |
4. Tonotactics |
12 |
mora syllable morpheme / mora syllable morpheme word / syllable / syllable foot morpheme word / syllable morpheme / syllable morpheme word |
|
Superficially toneless syllables |
EXTONSYL |
4. Tonotactics |
11 |
no / yes |
|
How toneless syllables are tonalized |
TNMETHOD |
4. Tonotactics |
6 |
obtains a default tone (which is not a toneme) / other / tonalized through polarization |
|
Toneless morphemes |
TLESSMORPH |
4. Tonotactics |
11 |
no / yes |
|
Default tonal level |
TLDEFAULT |
4. Tonotactics |
3 |
L / M |
|
Culminativity |
CULM |
5. Stress and tone |
12 |
no / yes |
|
Obligatority |
OBLIG |
5. Stress and tone |
12 |
no / yes |
|
Stress |
STRESS |
5. Stress and tone |
12 |
no / yes |
|
Is tonal span position predictable given the position of the stress? |
STRESSTS |
5. Stress and tone |
3 |
no / yes |
|
Grammatical tonal morphemes |
GRAMTONE |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
12 |
no / yes |
|
Floating grammatical tones |
FLOATGRAM |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
9 |
no / yes |
|
Tonal morphemes that combine a segment with a tonal operation outside of the segment |
TSEGGRAM |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
9 |
no / yes |
|
Tonal morphemes that contain more than one toneme |
MULTGRAM |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
10 |
no / yes |
|
Number of grammatical tonal morphemes |
NGRAM |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
10 |
0 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 7 / 20 / 37 / 50 |
|
Grammatical meanings expressed with tonal morphemes |
GRAMMEAN |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
9 |
inflectional / inflectional derivational / inflectional derivational syntactic |
|
Grammatical tones are realized on words of the following parts of speech |
GRAMPOS |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
9 |
noun verb / noun verb adjective / noun verb adjective pronoun adverb other / noun verb adjective pronoun auxiliary / noun verb adjective pronoun numeral / verb |
|
Lexical tone |
LEXTONE |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
4 |
yes |
|
Lexical categories that lack lexical tone |
CATNOLEXT |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
1 |
randomly distributed across lexicon |
|
Parts of speech that lack lexcial tone |
POSNOLEXT |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
1 |
other |
|
Distribution of tonemes depend on word classes |
TNMDIST |
7. Grammatical and Lexical Tones |
12 |
no / yes |
|
Tones marked in orthography |
ORTHO |
8. Miscellaneous |
13 |
tonal information is present indirectly / tones marked / tones not marked / tones partially marked / unwritten language |
|
Macroarea |
AREA |
8. Miscellaneous |
30 |
Africa / Eurasia / North America / Papunesia / South America |