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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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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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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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Phoneme distribution, syllabic structure, and tonal patterns in Nko texts
Mandenkan, 2011 In the paper, statistical analysis of texts written in Nko, an indigenous script created in 1949 by Sòlomána Kántɛ, is presented. The following information about phonotactics and tonology of the Maninka language as reflected in the Nko texts is obtained:
Andrij Rovenchak
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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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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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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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Notes on Syllable Structure in Three Arabic Dialects [PDF]
, 1986 Cet article examine quelques alternances très productives dans trois dialectes de l’arabe moderne : levantin, bani-hassan (bédouin) et soudanais. La première partie de l’article élabore une distinction entre « syllabes de base » (CV, CVV, CVC) et ...
Kenstowicz, Michael
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