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Figure 8.42: Spectrogram of the word (CM= (CM= (CM= (CM= ‘pack, wrap up’ spoken at a slow speaking
rate. (Speaker K)
The second issue regarding secondary articulations concerns whether or not they
bear tone. This is at its foundation a phonological question, depending on how the
secondary articulations are interpreted to be distributed within the phonological system of
the language. In Section 4.1, I argue on phonological grounds that Mono secondary
articulations do not bear tone. However, phonetic evidence which correlates with the
phonological analysis can be considered to strengthen the argument for the phonological
analysis.
The best phonetic evidence for arguing that a secondary articulation bears tone
would come from cases in which a contour tone—analyzed as a sequence of level
tones—occurs on a CGV syllable. If the secondary articulation does indeed bear tone,
then we expect the change from the first tone to the second to coincide with the transition
from the secondary articulation to the nuclear vowel. If the secondary articulation does
not bear tone, then we expect the change from the first tone to the second to lag the
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