Abstract This talk proposes an analysis of grammatical tone that is consistent with segmental grammatical particles on the one hand, while being in line with the treatment of other intonation phenomena such as lexical tone and sentence intonation on the other hand. The possessor-marking function of the ‘Induced Creaky Tone (ICT)’ in Burmese is taken as an example to show how tonal phonology interacts with morpho-syntax and semantics. Burmese is an omnisyllabic tone language with both a complex lexical tone system and abundant grammatical tonal alternation. The ICT alternation is optional and multifunctional. Production experiments and interviews with native speakers […]

At the intersection of computational modelling, data analysis and statistics, data science is gradually developing across all scientific domains, and the humanities and social sciences are no exception. Especially in these latter fields, data science rests on an epistemology and a range of techniques which strengths and weaknesses differ from those of longer-established approaches (Kitchin, 2014; Leonelli, 2010). This opens the way to fruitful collaborations between scholars of complementary expertise, and can offer fresh perspectives on old and complex issues. As an illustration of what precedes, linguistics has seen a steady increase in quantitative approaches in recent years, and large datasets […]