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Interaction of tone, syntax and semantics in the acquistion of chichewa negation.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The data for three children learning Chichewa as their first language between the ages of 1.0 and 2.6 were analyzed to identify and describe the patterns of development of tone, morpho-syntax and semantics in the acquisition of negation.
Moira Chimombo, Al Mtenje
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2019 This article reports the results of an experimental study of the realisation of /h/ in Yoruba. The aim was to determine whether the 1974 orthography convention requiring that òun “3rd Sg” be written without “h” while ohun “thing” be written with the ...
Kolawole Adeniyi
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Handling Tone in Two-Level Morphology
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2004 The problem of handling tone in morphological parsing has not yet been widely addressed. The morphological parsers are typically developed for languages without contrastive tonal systems, and the application of such parsers need to be adapted to handle ...
Lotta Harjula
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Reanalyse des tons du Bambara des tons du nom a l'organisation general du systeme
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 A partir de l'etude des noms, il est apparu progressivement (1) que Ie bambara, comme.le mende, possedait des schemes tonals de mot; (2) qu'a ces schemes s'ajoutait un ton haut flottant, que nous avons appele "ton haut de liaison"; (3) que l'association ...
Annie Railland, Mamadou Badjime
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What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches
Glossa, 2021 Yukuna is an understudied Arawak language of North-West Amazonia with a privative tonal system. In this system, roots are underlyingly specified for tone, whilst affixes are toneless. However, affixation interacts with tone, leading to many variations in
Dan Dediu +2 more
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Tone splitting and vowel quality evidence from Lugbara
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 In recent surveys of tonal phenomena it is suggested that vowel quality rarely affects tone. In the present paper it is argued that one such case can be found in Lugbara.
Torben Andersen
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Issues about tone rules in Xitshwa
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017 This paper examines High Tone Spread (HTS) within and beyond verb words in Xitshwa, an undocumented Bantu language (S51, Guthrie 1967‑1971) spoken in southern Mozambique, Inhambane province.
Zeferino Ugembe
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Survey of research on Livonian prosody
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The aim of the article is to give an overview of previous studies concerning Livonian prosody. In separate subsections a characterization of earlier treatments of the Livonian quantity and tone system will be provided. The Livonian prosodic system became
Tuuli Tuisk
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Tone Sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi
Studies in African Linguistics, 1993 Within the theoretical framework of nonlinear phonology, this paper proposes an account of tone sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi, a Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria. The database is Hoffman's Grammar of the Margi Language.
Bernard Tranel
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Aethiopica, 2020 Contrary to the claim made in a recently published article, that literature on Amharic stress is ‘almost nonexistent’, I present and quote from the works of Armbruster, Guidi, Abraham, and others, and discuss their concept of stress patterns in Amharic ...
Rainer Voigt
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