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October 10, 2024, 16.00, LLACAN. Larry Human. Latent High Tones in Limba (Tonko Dialect), Sierra Leone. Video recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18iVa72fWlPIcFbS0dUr6X17PKAih2GCs/view?usp=sharing

October 3, 2024, 16.00, LLACAN. Kirill Maslinsky. Thot Database. Video recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Azw6gyTfJerqtNtlKr4CNhMhRC5_8Rv/view?usp=sharing

September 19, 2024, 16.00, LLACAN. Elena Perekhvalskaya, Valentin Vydrin. Tonal system of Mwan. Video recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12RV2Bb71ujlQBh6jD4McZRHSuYyns8Rj/view?usp=sharing

June 19, 2024, 16.30, LLACAN. Lora Litvinova. Tonal system of Hausa.

May 21, 2024, 16.30, LLACAN, salle de conférences (also by zoom).

Valentin Vydrin, Kirill Maslinsky. Criteria of toneme.

(In the presentation posted here, some modifications have been done, with relation to the version presented on May 21. In particular, the “Atomicity property” of toneme has been removed.)

The video recording of the session is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yADqDoxt_TZkNhvbL6bjufhETgeWEu8g/view?usp=drive_link


March 21, 2024, 3 PM. LLACAN, salle de conférences (also by zoom).

  1. Valentin Vydrin. Prosodic (rhythmic) foot: what is it and how is it relevant for tonal systems?https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vXutDC4VbaW6UGUyMfQCVsbOPJ6l5JJ4/view?usp=drive_link

The idea of this discussion emerged during a working session of the Thot narrow team: to many people, the notion of a foot seemed not clear enough, as well as its relation with such notions as prosodic word or sequisillable, and also, its relevance for the understanding and description of the tonal system. Let us try to clarify this question.

Recommended reading:

Culhane, Kirsten. 2023. The prosodic foot beyond prosodic prominence: a preliminary survey. Linguistic Typology 27(2). 313–339. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0039.

Vydrin, Valentin. 2020. Featural foot in Bambara. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 41(2). 265–300. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2020-2012.

Vydrine, Valentin. 2010. Le pied métrique dans les langues mandé. In Franck Floricic (ed.), Essais de typologie et de linguistique générale. Mélanges offerts à Denis Creissels, 53–62. Lyon: ENS Éditions. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00715537.

2. Natalia Kuznetsova. Interaction of metrical foot, tone, voice quality, and quantity in Ayutla Tlapanec (Oto-Manguean, Mexico). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8875TVWpDzyaZvbMvLiY1mBWluZQnN4/view?usp=drive_link

March 19, 2024. Dmitry Gerasimov. Tonal system of Jamsay Dogon. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYkJpJWcKvU076lf1RDvJAmxRqcfGvol/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112753419895152227433&rtpof=true&sd=true

March 15, 2024. Terminology. Database, presentation of the sample, maps.

March 8, 2024. Discussion of text markup for calculating ITP.

February 21, 2024. Structure of the project site.

November 16, 2023. Dmitry Gerasimov. Sampling tonal languages. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gUuiFWZR86GMsyExMErI-RnUa3jlok-Y/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112753419895152227433&rtpof=true&sd=true

November 11, 2023. Larry M. Hyman. Two Kinds of Low Tone, Two Kinds of High Tone in Tiania (Kimeru)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZoKktPBbNyCzn6gI5bGZ6ClI4XaBAVOX/view?usp=sharing