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Tone Shift and Tone Spread in siSwati: An Alignment Approach
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017 Mobility of High (H) tone is one of the fundamental phenomena of Bantu tonology (Kisseberth & Odden 2003: 62). H tone shift and H tone spread are instances of such mobility.
Gloria Baby Malambe
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Mental representation of tonal spreading in Bemba: Evidence from elicited production and perception [PDF]
, 2015 Previous research has shown that listeners from tonal languages are better at processing tone compared to speakers from non-tonal languages. However, most of this research has tested Asian tone languages, particularly those which have many tonal ...
Braun, Bettina, Kula, Nancy C
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Studies in Language, 2014 Although it is common for “replacive” tonal patterns to be assigned by word-level morphological constructions, it is far less common for such overriding schemas to be assigned by specific phrase-level syntactic constructions. Kalabari, an Ijo language of Nigeria, does exactly this: Whenever the noun is preceded by a modifier, it loses its tones and ...
Otelemate G. Harry, Larry M. Hyman
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What tone teaches us about language [PDF]
, 2018 In ‘Tone: Is it different?’ (Hyman 2011a), I suggested that ‘tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so’, emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do.
Hyman, LM
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Orthography and Identity in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2001 The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography.
Bird, Steven
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The conjoint/disjoint alternation and phonological phrasing in Bemba [PDF]
, 2016 1. Introduction Bemba is renowned as an example of a language with an extensive conjoint-disjoint alternation following earlier work in Sharman and Meeussen (1955) and Sharman (1956). The alternation is understood as the expression of complementary pairs
Kula, NC
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Tone feature analysis: applications to Grassfields Bantu languages [PDF]
, 1989 International audienceThis paper reexamines the tonology of four "Bamileke" (Mbam-Nkam) languages of Cameroon, Dschang, Ghomala', Ngamambo, and Mankon. It develops an analysis in terms of tone features, both distinctive and nondistinctive.
Boyd, Raymond
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How To Study a Tone Language [PDF]
, 2014 In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate ...
Hyman, Larry
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Aspects of the phonetic and phonological structure of the G/ui language [PDF]
, 2008 This study describes selected aspects of the phonetic and phonological structure of the G|ui language, a poorly documented endangered Khoe (Central Khoisan) language spoken in Botwana.
Nakagawa, Hiroshi
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When marking tone reduces fluency: an orthography experiment in Cameroon [PDF]
, 1999 Should an alphabetic orthography for a tone language include tone marks? Opinion and practice are divided along three lines: zero marking, phonemic marking and various reduced marking schemes.
Bird, Steven
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