Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka: Online Supplementary Materials

The following examples, repeated from the main article, are accompanied by audio files illustrating the contrasts, produced by native speakers.

1. 2.

   1. a. ràaan    ā-lèl
      person DECL.SG-isolate.2SG
              'You are isolating a person.'

   2. b. ràaan    ā-lèel
      person DECL.SG-isolate.3SG
      'He is isolating a person.'

   3. c. ràaan    ā-lèeel
      person DECL.SG-provoke.3SG
              'He is provoking a person.'

   4. d. āā-lèl
      men    DECL.PL-isolate.2SG
              'You are isolating men.'

   5. e. āā-lèel
      men    DECL.PL-isolate.3SG
              'He is isolating men.'

   6. f. āā-lèeel
      men    DECL.PL-provoke.3SG
              'He is provoking men.'

1. 6.

   1. a. ràaan    ā-lèel
      person DECL.SG-isolate.3SG
              'He is isolating a person.'

   2. b. ràaan    ā-lêel
      person DECL.SG-provoke.PASS
              'A person is being provoked.'

1. 7.

   1. a. ràaan    ā-lèl
      person DECL.SG-isolate.2SG
              'You are isolating a person.'

   2. b. ràaan    ā-lêl
      person DECL.SG-isolate.PASS
              'A person is being isolated.'

1. 9.

   1. a. ràaan    ā-lèel                            
      person DECL.SG-isolate.3SG PREP-here
              'He is isolating a person here.'

   2. b. ràaan    ā-lêel                            
      person DECL.SG-provoke.PASS PREP-here
              'A person is being provoked here.'

Figure 11.

Averaged f0 traces on a normalized time axis of the Fall of Bor North and the Mid of Bor South, on syllables with a short stem vowel. Separate traces by Coda type and Dialect.

Bor North, CVN
Bor North, CVP
Bor South, CVN
Bor Soth, CVP