Intonation in African Tone Languages 311048479X, 9783110484793

Intonation in African Tone Languages 311048479X, 9783110484793

This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 perc

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Syllable Weight in African Languages [1 ed.] 9789027265821, 9789027248572

Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and expl

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The Intonation of Interrogation in Palermo Italian: Implications for intonation theory 3484303344, 9783484303348

In Palermo Italian yes-no interrogatives, if the last syllable of a phrase is unstressed, the nuclear pitch contour is r

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Practical Orthography of African Languages 9781138089754, 9781315103815, 9781138095861, 9781315105529

The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume

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Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages

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Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception

Phonology Lab, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2010, 32 p. This study investigated the perceptual dime

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Occasional Papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics. Volume III. Tone systems of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal. Part I, Studies on Tone and Phonological Segments

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Tone 9780231558792, 9780231211208, 9780231211215

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granula

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Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert 9781614515067, 9781614517078

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript

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Intonation and Its Uses: Melody in Grammar and Discourse 9781503623125

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