NAME: AMANDA IHINOSEN IYOHA

MAT NUMBER: ART1810802

COURSE CODE/TITLE: LST 412 TOPICS IN PHONOLOGY

ASSIGNMENT: TAKE A LOOK AT THE RULES ABOVE (rules given in class) AND COLLAPSE THE
ONES THAT CAN BE COLLAPSED, FORGE A DEFINITE FORMULA OUT OF THEM AND CREATE
RULES THAT CAN BE USED TO APPLY TO THEM.

ANSWERS
WHAT IS DOWNDRIFT: Downdrift is the cumulative lowering of pitch in the course of a sentence due to
interactions among tones in a tonal language. Downdrift often occurs when the tones in successive syllables are H L
H or H L L H. Languages with downdrift manifest it in different forms, for some languages if there are series of
tones without low tone intervening _ _ _ _ will be realised on the same level, however for some they will drift
casually.

Below are the rules :

RULE 1: A series of high tone without an intervening low tone will drift down in pitch
/+H/→[+H(n+1)]/[+Hn]_

RULE 3: A series of low tone without an intervening high tone will drift down in pitch
/-H/→[-H(n+1)]/[-Hn]_

COLLAPSED RULE: A series of high or low tone without an intervening high or low tone will drift down in pitch
/±H/→[±H(n+1)]/[±Hn]_

RULE 2: A series of high tone without an intervening low tone will not drift down in pitch
/+H/→[+Hn]/[+Hn]_

RULE 4: A series of low tone without an intervening high tone will not drift down in pitch
/-H/→[-Hn]/[-Hn]_

COLLAPSED RULE: A series of high or low tone without an intervening high or low tone will not drift in pitch
/±H/→[±Hn]/[±Hn]_

RULE 5: A series of high tone with an intervening low tone will drift down in pitch
/+H/→[+H(n+1)]/[+Hn][-H]_

RULE 7: A serious of low tone with an intervening high tone will drift down in pitch
/-H/→[-H(n+1)]/[-Hn][+H]_
COLLAPSED RULE: A series of high and low tone with an intervening high or low tone will drift down in pitch
/±H/→[±H(n+1)]/[±Hn][±H]

RULE 6: A series of high tone with an intervening how tone will not drift down in pitch
/+H/→[+Hn]/[+Hn][-Hn]_

RULE 8: A series of low tone with an intervening high tone will not drift down in pitch
/-H/→[-Hn]/[-Hn][+H]_

COLLAPSED RULE: A series of high and low tone with an intervening high or low tone will not drift down in
pitch
/±H/→[±Hn]/[±Hn][±H]_