Tono léxico y estructura métrica de la palabra amahuaca: hacia una comprensión de los patrones prosódicos de una lengua pano de las cabeceras

• Autores: Zariquiey, Roberto, Valenzuela, Pilar, Angulo, Candy
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/200684
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/29314/26589; https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/200684; https://doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202401.003
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Lexical tone; Panoan family; Amahuaca; Suprasegmental phonology; Tono léxico; Familia pano; Fonología suprasegmental; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.02.06

In the prosody of the Amahuaca language (Pano, Peru), we identify a lexical tone that contrasts with the absence of tone (H vs. Ø) and a metric structure based on the formation of trochaic feet from left to right. These features interact in such a way that the tonal structure of the roots changes in morphologically complex words, preventing high tones from falling on even, non-prominent syllables. Although the lexical tone of Amahuaca roots can be classified as a tonal system, the metric structure of the word would not satisfy the principle of culminativity, which assumes the presence of a syllable with maximum prosodic prominence (primary stress) in words with two or more well-formed metric feet.