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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Tone systems in African languages |
Editor: | Anyanwu, Rose-Juliet |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter (ISSN 0937-3039) |
Issue: | 17 |
Pages: | 198 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | African languages phonology |
Abstract: | The contributions in this volume discuss tone, including its function in the distinction of the pitch level of a syllable, morpheme, as well as word, and its role as a mainstay in grammatical constructions in most African languages. Contents: Tones in Jukunoid languages (Rose-Juliet Anyanwu) - The functions of the morphosyntactic tone in Bidiya (Rose-Juliet Anyanwu & Khalil Alio) - Rhythmic units and stress/word accent mobility in Fula (Rose-Juliet Anyanwu & Abdourahmane Diallo) - A survey of Northern Khoisan tonology (Rose-Juliet Anyanwu & Bernhard Köhler) - Tonal cases in Mushere (Plateau, Nigeria) (Herrmann Jungraithmayr) - Some remarks on nominal tone in Maa (Antje Meissner) - The variable status of nasals as tone bearing units in Kabiyè (David Roberts) - The tones of Iko: a preliminary descriptive study (Eno-Abasi Urua). [ASC Leiden abstract] |