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Ternary spreading and the OCP in Copperbelt Bemba [PDF]

Studies in African Linguistics, 2013
Bemba tonology has been described with respect to two prominent claims: H tone local spreading is binary, and is blocked by the OCP. These claims are based on Bemba, as spoken in Northern Zambia.
Lee S. Bickmore, Nancy S. Kula
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Phrasal phonology in Copperbelt Bemba [PDF]

Studies in African Linguistics, 2015
Copperbelt Bemba exhibits several rightward spreading tonal processes which are sensitive to prosodic phrase structure. The rightmost H tone in a word will undergo unbounded spreading if the word is final in a phonological phrase (phi).
Bickmore, Lee S, Kula, Nancy C
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Aspects of Bandi tonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 1991
Bandi tonology offers three points of interest. The first is low tone opacity. Several tone rules act to obscure the presence of underlying low tones in Bandi.
Robert Mugele, Michael Rodewald
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Tura verbal tonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 2008
This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the verbal tone system of Tura, a previously undocumented dialect of Luyia (Bantu, Kenya, J.30).
Michael R. Marlo
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Silozi Phrasal Tonology

Nordic Journal of African Studies
In Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which reveals a ...
Lee Bickmore, Kristina Riedel
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Moraic mismatches in Somali phonology

Afrika und Übersee, 2022
This paper reconsiders the moraic status of coda consonants in Somali. It is argued that Somali joins a growing list of languages presenting a challenge to the Moraic Uniqueness Hypothesis.
Christopher Green
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Nominal tonology and spreading rules in Tagbana (Fròʔò dialect)

Studies in African Linguistics, 2021
In this article, nominal tonology of Tagbana, a Senufo language of Côte d’Ivoire is investigated. The contribution of this article is twofold as it concerns the whole tonal system, including lexical tones, sandhi tone rules, and the organisation of the ...
Annie Rialland, Yranahan Traore, Caroline Féry   +2 more
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Tagba Tone: a case of tier hierarchization

Corela, 2020
Tagba (Senufo) is a tone language that presents tonal patterns that appear quite regular at first glance. However, these are difficult to model under standard autosegmental hierarchical assumptions regarding the placement of skeleton, segments and tones.
Mori Edwige TRAORÉ, Xiaoliang LUO
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A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande

Mandenkan, 2018
Word‑level replacive tonal patterns are characteristic of the tonology of many Western Mande languages. Such patterns are explicitly discussed in extant descriptions of some languages but mentioned only in passing or not at all for others. This survey of
Christopher R. Green
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Lusoga Noun Phrase Tonology [PDF]

UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2017
Lusoga Noun Phrase ...
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