The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals

Studies on African Languages Offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th Birthday
Nachdruck 2016
ISBN: 978-3-11-013109-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Multiple languages, Band 4, 379 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 842 g

Reihe: Publications in African Languages and Linguistics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bogers, Koen

Mous, Marten

Hulst, Harry van der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Tone -- Tonal Influence on Vocalic Quality -- Tone and Grammar in Akan. The Tone of Possessive Constructions in the Asante Dialect -- The Analysis of Falling Tones in Ghotu? -- The Autosegmental Representation of Tones in Akan: more Evidence for the Tone Mapping Rule with Reference to Baule -- The Tonal Phonology of Siya (a Central-Togo Language) and the Historical Significance of its Major Functions -- Tone in the CiRuri Present Continuous -- The Representation of Multiple Tone Heights -- Downglide, Floating Tones and Non-WH Questions in Ga and Dangme -- Contour Tones as Phonemic Primes in Grebo -- The Igbo Associative and Specific Constructions -- Vowel Harmony -- The Chameleonic Vowel in the Harmonizing Prefixes of Efik -- On Neutral Vowels -- Vowel Harmony in Tunen -- Segment Structure Rules -- The Evaluation of Segment Structure Conditions through the Explicit Statement of their Logical Implications -- A Note on Segment Inventories, Redundancy Conditions and A-Rules -- Miscellaneous -- Syllabification and Epenthesis in the Barra Dialect of Gaelic -- Phonetic Features -- The Development of Nasalized Vowels in the Teke Language Group (Bantu)