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Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
, 1999 Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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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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Metronome-Cued Stepping in Place after Hemiparetic Stroke: Comparison of a One- and Two-Tone Beat [PDF]
, 2013 Hemiparetic gait is characterised by temporal asymmetry and variability, and these variables are improved by auditory cueing. Stepping in place incorporates aspects of gait and may be a useful tool for locomotor training.
Maccormac, Elinor S. +5 more
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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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The Development of a Single Frequency Place in the Mammalian Cochlea: The Cochlear Resonance in the Mustached Bat Pteronotus parnellii [PDF]
, 2003 Cochlear microphonic potentials (CMs) were recorded from the sharply tuned, strongly resonant auditory foveae of 1- to 5-week-old mustached bats that were anesthetized with Rompun and Ketavet.
Drexl, Markus +4 more
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Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2017 Навчук Галина. Междометия как средство передачи эмоциональной экспрессии в восклицательных предложениях украинского языка. В статье рассмотрены междометия как средство выражения эмоциональной экспрессии в восклицательных предложениях украинского языка ...
Галина НАВЧУК
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A spin to preserve contrast: Taiwanese tone sandhi
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2020 Chain-shifts, particularly circular ones such as the tone sandhi of Taiwanese Min has been a longstanding challenge to which phonologists of various persuasions have attempted. This paper appeals to markedness against contour tones in non-final positions
Wee, Lian-Hee
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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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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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