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Tonal development in Athabaskan languages from Proto-Athabaskan manifests in three different ways: (a) H tone marked languages, (b) L tone marked languages, and (c) non-tonal languages. This type of tonogenesis is argued to be due to the coordination problem (Bermúdez-Otero, 2007), in which misperception leads to the restructuring of grammar, which results in the creation of tone. The diachronic changes in Athabaskan languages provide further evidence for the relationship between tonogenesis and consonant-tone interaction because tone developed in opposite ways in different languages of Athabaskan. The seemingly contradictory tonal development patterns will be explained by a constraint based theory of consonant-tone interaction.
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1. Introduction
2. Tonogenesis and issues in diachronic phonology
3. Tonogenesis in Athabaskan languages (adopted from Kingston 2005)
4. Restructuring of grammar: Coordination problem and Diachronic change
5. Tonogenesis, consonant-tone interaction and Optimality Theory
5.1. Non-tonal Athabaskan languages
5.2. Acquiring tonal Athabaskan languages from non-tonal languages
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
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