Packet 3: Bonus 5
Description acceptable. Words ending in glottal stops in Proto-Athabaskan independently underwent this process, producing “mirrored” results in pairs of descendant languages. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this process. In a language written in a Latin script created by Jesuits like de Pina, André-Georges Haudricourt (“on-dray zhorzh oh-dree-KOOR”) showed that this process created a six-way distinction after the loss of final laryngeals (“la-RIN-jee-ulls”) and voicing distinctions in initial consonants.
ANSWER: tonogenesis [accept any answer describing a language gaining tones or tonality as a lexical distinction or a language gaining new tones; accept tonomitosis or tone splits or tonal splits] (The language is Vietnamese.)
[10m] Tones are often shared by genetically-unrelated nearby languages due to contact, making tones these features known by either a German-derived word or a five-letter adjective.
ANSWER: sprachbund features OR areal features [or sprachbünde]
[10e] Tones and tone mirroring are common in this language family, which spread through central and southern Africa in a namesake migration.
ANSWER: Bantu languages [prompt on Niger–Congo languages]
<Editors, Social Science> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 16.19 | 100% | 48% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland A | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| North Carolina | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford A | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Swarthmore | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Georgetown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Vanderbilt | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 16.19 | 100% | 48% | 14% |