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Bibliographie des langues du Gabon revisitée [PDF]
, 2000 Cet article fait l'inventaire des travaux récents sur les langues du Gabon. Il prend en compte les publications ou les monographies qui sont parues depuis les années 84-85. Cette bibliographie constitue ainsi une mise à jour de la contribution de Hombert
Mvé, Pither Medjo
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Tone and intonation: introductory notes and practical recommendations [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThe present article aims to propose a simple introduction to the topics of (i) lexical tone, (ii) intonation, and (iii) tone-intonation interactions, with practical recommendations for students.
Michaud, Alexis, Vaissière, Jacqueline
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Intonational Features of Local and Global Discourse Structure [PDF]
, 1992 We present results of a study of the relationship between intonational features including pitch range, timing, and amplitude and aspects of discourse structure defined in terms of Grosz and Sidner's (1986) model of discourse.
Grosz, Barbara, Hirschberg, Julia
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Toward a comprehensive framework for tonal analysis: Yangru tone in Southern Min
Open LinguisticsThis study establishes a comprehensive framework for analyzing tone as an important but complex mechanism in East and Southeast Asian tonal languages.
Huang Yishan
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Pitch Reset in Akan Subordinate Clauses
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis study explores how lexical tone interacts with intonation in Akan, focusing on pitch reset as a prosodic cue in complex declaratives. Pitch reset – an upward shift in fundamental frequency (f0) following declination – has been documented in various
Olivia Serwaa Oppong +2 more
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A sketch of Lower Nyole tone [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an overview of the tone system of Lower Nyole (LN), a moribund and previously unrecognized variety of Nyole (JE35) spoken in southern Busoga.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice +3 more
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Construction Tonology: The Case of Kalabari [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2012 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 Ijoid language of Nigeria, does exactly this: Whenever the noun is preceded by a modifier, it loses its tones and ...
Harry, Otelemate, Hyman, Larry M
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A propos de Kal et de Sigidi: Problèmes de dialectologie Zaar (tchadique Sud-Bauchi) [PDF]
, 2000 International audienceThis paper deals with the internal classification of the Saya cluster (Chadic West B, Southern Bauchi, Baaraawaa Sub-group South : Shimizu 78 :13). A new Zaar dialect is introduced : the Zaar of Marti, and the Kal dialect of Zaar is
Caron, Bernard
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Contains table of contents for Section 4, an introduction and abstracts for three doctoral ...
Chomsky, A. Noam +4 more
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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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