Phonology

Linguistic and anthropological documentation of Kulaale (Bua, Niger-Congo; Chad)

The representation of tone: subtonal features

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2024. “Severing register from tone: The case for underlying downstep.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2024 (AMP 2024), Rutgers University, 1-3 November 2024. [slides]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2022. “The features and geometry of tone in Laal”. Phonology 39(2): 251–292. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675723000040

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2022. “Subtonal features in a three-tone language: Evidence from Laal”. In Peter Jurgec, Liisa Duncan, Emily Elfner, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Brittney K. O’Neill, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz, Nate Shaftoe, and Lisa Sullivan (eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2021). Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v9i0.5136

The representation of downstep: register features

  • Lionnet, Florian. Accepted. “Tonal languages without tone: Downstep in Drubea and Numèè (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. To appear in Phonology. [Latest draft available as lingbuzz/007926]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2022. “Tone and downstep in Paicî (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. Phonological Data and Analysis 4(1): 1-47. DOI: 10.3765/pda.v4art1.45

Grammatical tone:

  • Lionnet, Florian, Laura McPherson, and Nicholas Rolle. 2022. “Theoretical Approaches to Grammatical Tone”. Phonology 39(3), Special Issue: Theoretical Approaches to Grammatical Tone, pp. 385–398. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675723000179

  • Hyman, Larry, and Florian Lionnet. 2012. “Metatony in Abo (Bankon, A42)”. In Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison, and Tristan M. Purvis (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages in Context. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/42/abstract2753.html

Floating tones and Phantom Structure:

  • Rolle, Nicholas, and Florian Lionnet. “Phantom structure: a representational account of floating tone association”. In Hyunah Baek, Chikako Takahashi, and Alex Hong-Lun Yeung (eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Meeting on Phonology. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v8i0.4744

Prosodic structure

Tone and prosodic structure:

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2022. “Tons et structure prosodique en paicî (Nouvelle-Calédonie) / Tone and prosodic structure in Paicî (New Caledonia)”. In Anne-Laure Dotte, Stéphanie Geneix-Rabault, and Suzie Bearune (eds.), Uane nore nodei lanengoc – Penser les langues – Thinking about languages: Actes de la 11ème Conférence de Linguistique Océanienne – Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL 11), p.47-68, Nouméa: Presses Universitaires de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Proceedings URL: https://unc.nc/uane-nore-nodei-lanengoc/. [lingbuzz/007087]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2019. “The colon as a separate prosodic category: Tonal evidence from Paicî (Oceanic, New Caledonia)”. In Richard Stockwell, Maura O’Leary, Zhong-shi Xu, and Z.L. Zhou (eds.). Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 36). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/36/abstract3469.html

Phonetics-phonology interface

Subphonemic teamwork & subfeatural representations:

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2018. “Phonological teamwork in Kalahari Basin languages”. Africana Linguistica 54: 75-97. DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285492

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2017. “A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal.” Phonology, 34(3): 523-564. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675717000276 [preprint available at lingbuzz/004001]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2016. Subphonemic Teamwork: A Typology and Theory of Cumulative Coarticulatory Effects in Phonology. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. [pdf]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2015. “Phonological teamwork as quantal markedness” In the Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics Poster Session (Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics) (WCCFL 33). SFU Linguistics Graduate Student Association. 76-85. [pdf]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2014. “Doubly Triggered Harmony in Laal as Subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence”. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater and Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2013). Linguistic Society of America Online Conference Proceedings. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v1i1.38

Clicks

Click consonant phonology:

  • Nakagawa, Hirosi, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Daniel Auer, Anne-Maria Fehn, Linda Ammann Gerlach, Tom Güldemann, Sylvanus Job, Florian Lionnet, Christfried Naumann, Hitomi Ono, and Lee J. Pratchett. “Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages”. Linguistic Typology 27(2): 509–535. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0047

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2018. “Phonological teamwork in Kalahari Basin languages”. Africana Linguistica 54: 75-97. DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285492

Paralinguistic use of clicks:

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2021. “Clicks as areal verbal gestures in West and Central Africa (and beyond?)”. Paper presented at the 10th World Congress on African Linguistics, 7-11 June2021, Leiden University. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DFZME.

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2020. “Paralinguistic use of clicks in Chad”. In Bonny Sands (ed.), Click Consonants, pp. 422-437. Leiden: Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004424357_015 [lingbuzz/006925]

Vowel harmony

  • Lionnet, Florian. “ATR harmony in Fanya (Bua, Chad)”. Paper presented at the 55th meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55), McGill University,Montreal, 2-4 May 2024.

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2017. “A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal.” Phonology, 34(3): 523-564. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675717000276 [preprint available at lingbuzz/004001]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2014. “Doubly Triggered Harmony in Laal as Subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence”. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater and Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2013). Linguistic Society of America Online Conference Proceedings. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v1i1.38

Agreement-by-Correspondence Theory

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2017. “A theory of subfeatural representations: the case of rounding harmony in Laal.” Phonology, 34(3): 523-564. DOI: 10.1017/S0952675717000276 [preprint available at lingbuzz/004001]

  • Lionnet, Florian. 2014. “Doubly Triggered Harmony in Laal as Subphonemic Agreement by Correspondence”. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater and Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2013). Linguistic Society of America Online Conference Proceedings. DOI: 10.3765/amp.v1i1.38

Typological & areal linguistics

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Historical linguistics

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Other

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