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This dissertation reads and writes stories of a contact zone, producing a critical geography of a village in Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. In the dissertation, I analyze texts that represent this place and the transcultural interactions that take place there, specifically the in…

In this dissertation I demonstrate that stress has played an important role in the development of tone in Tibetan. Using original field data and acoustic analysis, I compare two non-tonal "Archaic" varieties spoken at the western and eastern edges of the Tibetan language area: B…