
Stress and Tone – The African Experience
Edited by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. With contributions by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Lee S. Bickmore, Denis Creissels, Laura J. Downing, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Leoma Gilley, Larry Hyman, Roland Kießling, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Robert Nicolaï, Imelda Udoh, Rainer Voßen.
Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2003, Volume 15
20044 pp. Roman, 200 pp.
numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
340 g
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CONTENTS
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu:
Tone and accent in the Igbo verb
Lee S. Bickmore:
The use of feet to account for binary tone spreading
Denis Creissels:
Some remarks on tonal processes at utterance boundaries
Laura Downing:
Stress, tone and focus in Chichewa and Xhosa
Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
Tone and vowel deletion, insertion and syllable structure
Leoma Gilley:
The feature of stress in Nilotic
Larry Hyman / Imelda Udoh:
Tone mapping in Leggbó
Roland Kießling:
Tonogenesis in Southern Cushitic (Common West Rift)
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig:
The prosodological structure of Herero
Rainer Voßen:
Verbal tone and stress in ||Ani (Central Khoisan)
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Robert Nicolaï: Leçon d’Afrique, filiations, ruptures et reconstitution de langues – un hommage à Gabriel Manessy
(Rose-Juliet Anyanwu)
Accompanying material:
Cross-reference:
- Reference Grammar of Yukuben (Jukunoid, Nigeria)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-473-7 ) - Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Benue-Congo Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-470-6 ) - Transitivity in African Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-726-4 )
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