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Depressor consonants in Geji [PDF]
, 2008 International audienceGeji, a language spoken in Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) belonging to the the West-B3 group of Chadic languages, has a tonal system based on a three-level distinction between Hi, Mid and Low, with Falling and Rising combinations ...
Caron, Bernard
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South-Bauchi West TAM System [PDF]
, 2003 International audienceThe 27 or so lects grouped into the SBW sub-group of Chadic languages (Shimizu, 1978) are spoken in the South of the Bauchi state (Nigeria) stretching from Bauchi to the south of the state over less than 100 kms.
Caron, Bernard
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Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1992 Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on The Typology of Tone Languages (1992)
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The Accentuation of Three-mora Loan Words in Japanese [PDF]
, 2006 日本語のカタカナ語のアクセントには規則性があることが指摘されている(Kubozono 1989等)。しかし、カタカナ三拍語の用例を見ていくと、その中に規則に反する例外をいくつか見つけることができる。本稿では、その反例の理由を考察し、理由付けとして1)母音の無性化と2)カタカナ語のアクセントの日本語化という二つの仮説を立てる。更にアンケートを実施してカタカナ語とひらがな語のアクセントを比較し ...
Miho Yuki, 由木 美帆
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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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Studying tones in North East India: Tai, Singpho and Tangsa [PDF]
, 2014 Drawing on nearly 20 years of study of a variety of languages in North East India, from the Tai and Tibeto-Burman families, this paper examines the issues involved in studying those languages, building on three well established principles: (a) tones are ...
Morey, Stephen
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Strategies for analyzing tone languages [PDF]
, 2014 This paper outlines a method of auditory and acoustic analysis for determining the tonemes of a language starting from scratch, drawing on the author’s experience of recording and analyzing tone languages of north-east India.
Coupe, Alexander R.
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, 2007 Cette étude décrit et explique la composition et la réalisation du ton en njém, une langue bantoue de la région forestière du sud-est du Cameroun et du nord de Congo. Les noms ont principalement des racines monosyllabiques et disyllabiques. Les racines verbales sont principalement monosyllabiques (CV et CVC) et disyllabiques (CVCV) sauf lorsqu'elles ...
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Review of Derek Nurse and Gérard Philippson, eds., 'The Bantu Languages' [PDF]
, 2005 Marten, Lutz
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DP Positions in African Languages [PDF]
, 2010 A handout of a presentation given at the Afranaph Project Development Workshop on December 10-11, 2010, at Rutgers University in New Jersey.A central concern of syntactic theory has long been to explain and predict the distribution of nominal expressions,
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