caa a22 4500 386338612 CHVBK 20180307111741.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S095267570000097X doi S095267570000097X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S095267570000097X Yip Moira Brandeis University Contour tones [Elektronische Daten] [Moira Yip] Recent work (Clements 1985; Sagey 1986) on the structure of distinctive features has analysed affricates and prenasalised stops as involving branching for the features [continuant] and [nasal] respectively. This analysis explains the edge effects associated with such segments, while simultaneously identifying them as single melodic elements that associate as units to prosodic templates. This paper will argue that some languages have contour tones that show parallel properties to those of affricates: they associate as units, but also exhibit edge effects. Such behaviour can be simply understood if tonal features hang off a tonal root node (Archangeli & Pulleyblank forthcoming), and this tonal root node is allowed to branch. A high rising contour tone will have the structure shown in (i), where [upper] is the tonal root node, and [raised] is free to branch. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Phonology Cambridge University Press 6/1(1989-05), 149-174 0952-6757 6:1<149 1989 6 PHO https://doi.org/10.1017/S095267570000097X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S095267570000097X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Yip Moira Brandeis University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Phonology Cambridge University Press 6/1(1989-05), 149-174 0952-6757 6:1<149 1989 6 PHO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge