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…
This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting …
In this dissertation, I investigate the phonology, phonetics, and historical development of Santa María Gueinagati Zapotec (GZ), an Otomanguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. My description of the phonology of GZ focuses of the contrasts the occur in the root, which, in its …