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Make sure tone sandhi involving the 0-IPFV 1PL.SBJ prefix (outer pref…
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…ix allomorph) occurs with /à/ generally, not just with distributive plural dà-.
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coxchristopher authored Jan 15, 2025
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# Morphophonological adjustments to tone.
#

# The distributive plural dà- has slightly different tonal behaviour compared
# to other low-tone prefixes in Tsuut'ina: before 0-IPFV 1PL isaà-/isiì-, dà-
# combines to form dààsaà-/dààsiì- (i.e., LM -> LL, e.g., dààsaàtsiy "each and
# every one of us is crying", from dà- + isaàtsiy), rather than the expected
# *daasaà-/*daasiì- (i.e., LM -> MM, as is found in all other LM contexts).
# In all other contexts, dà- behaves tonally like any other low-marked prefix.
# The 0-IPFV 1PL.SBJ allomorph isaà-/isiì- has slightly different tonal
# behaviour from other prefixes that begin with i- in Tsuut'ina: before 0-IPFV
# 1PL.SBJ isaà-/isiì-, low-tone inflectional prefixes (e.g., dà- distributive
# plural) and lexical prefixes (e.g., nà- in lexemes like nàkuy "vomit" and
# nàmo "swim/bathe") combine to form Cv̀v̀saà-/Cv̀v̀siì- (i.e., LM -> LL, e.g.,
# dààsaàtsiy "each and every one of us is crying", from distributive plural
# dà- + isaàtsiy; or nààsaàmo "we both will swim/bathe", from lexical nà- +
# isaàmo), rather than the expected *Caasaà-/*Caasiì- (i.e., LM -> MM, as is
# found in all other LM contexts).
#
# We model this by representing the low-tone à in distributive plural dà- with
# the multi-character symbol <à2>, then targetting the <i2> moraic /i/ that
# represents the initial vowel in 0-IPFV 1PL isaà-/isiì-.
define distributivePlural1PLToneSandhi [ à2 "." i2 -> à ì ];
# We model this by representing the initial vowel in isaà-/isiì- with the
# multi-character symbol <i2>, then handle this sandhi behaviour with a
# targetted rewrite rule. (We currently only have evidence for this sandhi
# pattern after à, so it's possible that this pattern actually only applies
# to that one vowel, rather than all low vowels. If we come across instances
# of ì=, ò=, or ù= appearing immediately before 0-IPFV 1PL.SBJ that share
# this behaviour, this rule will need to be rewritten/expanded)
define toneSandhi1PL [ [ à2 | à ] "." i2 -> à ì ];

# Define LH -> MH (e.g., shì-á -> shaá, as in shaásʔín "I prepared food, made
# a feast", dà-á -> daá, as in daátłiyaàʔí "each and every one of us saw each
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.o. perfectiveToneLowering
.o. lToneLowering
.o. hToneSpreading
.o. distributivePlural1PLToneSandhi
.o. toneSandhi1PL
.o. distributivePluralBefore2PL
.o. iAssimilation
.o. iTAMAAssimilation
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