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Language Sciences, 2009
Abstract This paper sketches tone in the Luhya (Bantu) language Tachoni, spoken in Western Kenya, with the goal of filling a lacuna in our understanding of tonal grammars both in Bantu and human language. Most aspects of Tachoni tone are encountered in other Bantu languages, such as the two-way lexical opposition in root tone as well as rules ...
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Abstract This paper sketches tone in the Luhya (Bantu) language Tachoni, spoken in Western Kenya, with the goal of filling a lacuna in our understanding of tonal grammars both in Bantu and human language. Most aspects of Tachoni tone are encountered in other Bantu languages, such as the two-way lexical opposition in root tone as well as rules ...
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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Abstract Silozi is one of Zambia’s seven national languages, and is also spoken in parts of Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. At its heart the language can fairly be characterized as a “Shift and Double” one, where an underlying High tone shifts to the following TBU and then doubles onto the next one in defined prosodic domains.
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Abstract Silozi is one of Zambia’s seven national languages, and is also spoken in parts of Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. At its heart the language can fairly be characterized as a “Shift and Double” one, where an underlying High tone shifts to the following TBU and then doubles onto the next one in defined prosodic domains.
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1987
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects.
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This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects.
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‘Leftward ho!’ in Zulu tonology
South African Journal of African Languages, 1989Tonal rules that move a high tone from one tone-bearing unit to another are of two types: those that are immediately followed by the delinking of the high tone from the tone-bearing unit with which it was originally associated, and those where the high tone spreads to the next syllable while retaining its initial association, ending up as a doubly ...
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Headed Spans and Bantu Tonology
2007McCarthy (2004) shows that OT-based theories of featural and tonal assimilation to date are inadequate for two reasons: (i) they fail to distinguish between candidates showing varying degrees of harmony; (ii) or, they achieve assimilation disingenously (i.e. via unattested repairs).
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This paper describes and analyzes the verbal tonology of Town Nyanja, spoken inLusaka, Zambia. While closely related to Malawian Chichewa and Eastern ProvinceNyanja, Town Nyanja is shown to be critically different in several respects. First,unlike Chichewa, which still exhibits a tone contrast in verb roots, Town Nyanjahas lost that underlying contrast.
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Dialectal tone description enhances historical tonology
DiachronicaAbstract This paper illustrates that in-depth descriptive work of closely related varieties of Dinka, a Nilotic tone language with an unusually complex suprasegmental system, provides solutions to previously unanswered questions about historical tone change.
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