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Intonation in African Tone Languages

By Laura J. Downing (editor) , Annie Rialland (editor)

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2016
ISBN
311048479X, 9783110484793
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (11005021 bytes)
Series
Phonology and Phonetics [PP], 24
Pages
448\448
Time added
2023-02-04 09:23:42

Description

This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap. Table of contents Introduction I. Northern Africa Intonation in the Thetogovela dialect of Moro II. Western Africa Kɔnni Intonation Tone and intonation in Akan Tone and intonation in Mambila Aspects of the intonational phonology of Bàsàá How intonations interact with tones in Embosi (Bantu C25), a two-tone language without downdrift III. Eastern Africa Chimiini intonation Tone and intonation in Shingazidja IV. Eastern Central and Southern Africa Intonation in Bemba Tone and intonation in Chichewa and Tumbuka Sentence intonation in Tswana (Sotho-Tswana group) Notes on contributors Index

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