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Title:Tone systems in African languages
Editor:Anyanwu, Rose-JulietISNI
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]
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