Abstract
Haida, a Native American language spoken in the northwestern coast area of British Columbia in Canada, has three levels of phonetic tone, namely high (H), mid (M), and low (L), whose occurrences correlate with the syllable structure and the morphological process. The present study observes distributions of each tone in monosyllabic and polysyllabic words and argues that occurrences of tones are not specified in the underlying level but are predictable from the syllable structure and certain morphological information. Based on this fact, it postulates a set of tone assignment rules for deriving these phonetic tones.
