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Linglib.Fragments.Poko.Tone

Poko Tonal Fragment #

Lexical tone data for Poko (Poko-Rawo; Glottolog rawo1244, ISO 639-3 rwa), a Skou language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea (~100 speakers, [McPD21]). Three contrastive tone levels (H, M, L) plus toneless syllables and floating tones; the TBU is the syllable. Lexical melodies span Ø, M, MH, LM, LH, M^H and double-floating ^L∅^H, with floating L only stem-initial and floating H only stem-final ([McPL26] ex. 3, §2.2); simple L and H melodies are absent — [McP22] derives the gap from edge constraints (NonInitial(H), NonFinal(L)), while [McPL26] speculate an extreme OCP response.

Just enough stems for the [McPL26] tableaux; promote to a fuller fragment when a second Poko paper arrives.

Main definitions #

Syllables #

inductive Poko.Syll :

Poko syllables for the [McPL26] tableaux: fig. 3 (kak, ri, do); eq. (24) (nan, ri, na); eq. (27) (kak, ka); eq. (30) (kak, ili); eq. (22a) (ne).

  • kak : Syll

    3sg.m possessive kāk (melody /M^H/).

  • ri : Syll

    Pig stem (melody /M^H/).

  • do : Syll

    Get verb (melody /M^H/).

  • nan : Syll

    1sg pronoun nãn — possessor 'my' and subject 'I' (melody /M/).

  • na : Syll

    Eat verb (melody /M/).

  • ka : Syll

    Friend stem (melody /MH/, surfacing as a rise; eq. 26a).

  • ili : Syll

    Bamboo stem ìlí (melody /LH/; disyllabic in the language, collapsed to a single backbone element here; eq. 28a).

  • ne : Syll

    Make.1sg verb stem ne (toneless; eq. 22a).

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    @[implicit_reducible]
    instance Poko.instDecidableEqSyll :
    DecidableEq Syll
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    instance Poko.instReprSyll :
    Repr Syll
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    def Poko.instReprSyll.repr :
    SyllStd.Format
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      Morphemes and melodies #

      Stable morpheme per stem, keyed by the syllable's surface form.

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        The underlying form of a stem sequence: melodies concatenated left-to-right.

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          @[reducible, inline]
          abbrev Poko.Form :

          Poko autosegmental forms: syllable backbone, TRN tone tier.

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