Author: George N. Clements
Publisher: Publications in African Languages and Linguistics
ISBN: 9783110130331
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: George N. Clements
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110864460
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone.

Author: Harry van der Hulst
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110874261
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Autosegmental Studies on Pitch Accent Linguistic Models.

Author: Keith Snider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110869373
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Keith Snider
Publisher: SIL International
ISBN: 1556714327
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant features: • Delivers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to tone analysis for field linguists • Emphasizes the discovery of contrastive tone patterns of morphemes, as opposed to contrastive tones of tone-bearing units • Focuses on keeping constant all factors that can potentially affect tone, so that utterances being compared are truly comparable • Includes a chapter on the phonetic properties of pitch • Presents principles for developing orthographies for tone languages • Includes comprehensive accompanying online exercises* that guide students from beginning to end through a complete analysis of nominal tone in a single language, Chumburung. Assuming little prior knowledge of tone or tone languages, Tone Analysis for Field Linguists is readily accessible to students and field workers alike who have previously taken introductory courses in articulatory phonetics, phonology, and morphology and syntax. *Instructors may access the accompanying online exercises. Register here: https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/toneanalysis_teachermaterials

Author: Rochelle Lieber
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438410832
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This volume resolves an inconsistency that has arisen in the autosegmental theory of phonology and morphology - some versions of this theory allow a single distinctive feature to be duplicated on more than one tier, and others do not. In this book the author affirms that duplication of features should be allowed, but should not be restricted, by a device called the Duplicate Features Filter. She proposes a number of other revisions to current autosegmental theory, and shows how this unified theory can lead to elegant and revealing analyses of such varied phenomena as consonant mutation, umlaut, infixation and the behavior of depressor consonants in tone languages, and vowel and consonant harmony processes. Languages as diverse as Khalka Mongolian, modern German, Zulu, Andalusian Spanish, Terena, Mixtec, Chumash, Fula, Nuer, and Chemehuevi are discussed. Integrated autosegmental theory draws together diverse linguistic phenomena and reveals underlying similarities among them. The result is a concise and detailed work which brings the phenomena of autosegmental phonology and morphology into a single cohesive framework.

Author: Wolfgang Kehrein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110377497
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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This volume seeks to reevaluate the nature of tone-segment interactions in phonology. The contributions address, among other things, the following basic questions: what tone-segment interactions exist, and how can the facts be incorporated into phonological theory? Are interactions between tones and vowel quality really universally absent? What types of tone-consonant interactions do we find across languages? What is the relation between diachrony and synchrony in relevant processes? The contributions discuss data from various types of languages where tonal information plays a lexically distinctive role, from ‘pure’ tone languages to so-called tone accent systems, where the occurrence of contrastive tonal melodies is restricted to stressed syllables. The volume has an empirical emphasis on Franconian dialects in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, but also discusses languages as diverse as Slovenian, Livonian, Fuzhou Chinese, and Xhosa.

Author: Moira Jean Winsland Yip
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521774451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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This comprehensive textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology.

Author: Koen Bogers
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110866293
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: John M. Mugane
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9781592211555
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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For the thirty-third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired and used. This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd AWAL held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa.