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Intonation in African Tone Languages / ed. by Laura J. Downing, Annie Rialland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] ; 24Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (VI, 442 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110484793
  • 9783110499070
  • 9783110503524
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  • 496 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Supplementary Material
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Supplementary Material

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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