Syllable Weight In African Languages
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Syllable Weight In African Languages
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Author : Paul Newman
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-04-12
Syllable Weight In African Languages written by Paul Newman and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept is critical to our understanding of complex phenomena in African languages, including stress, tone, allomorphy, minimal word requirements, and metrics. This volume includes a broad overview of syllable weight as a phonological variable and then provides detailed case studies covering an array of African languages from various phyla spoken across the continent. This should prove to be an essential book for scholars and students in the area of general phonology and African linguistics. The editor of the book, Distinguished Professor Paul Newman, is an internationally well-known expert on African linguistics in general and the Hausa language in particular. It was he who first introduced the term ‘syllable weight’ in a seminal article published nearly a half century ago.
Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic
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Author : F. Dell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic written by F. Dell and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is intended primarily as an original contribution to the investi gation of the phonology of the two main languages spoken in Morocco. Its central topic is syllable structure. Our theoretical outlook is that of generative phonology. Most of the book deals with Tashlhiyt Berber. This language has a syllable structure with properties which are highly unusual, as seen from the vantage point of better-studied languages on which most theorizing about syllabification is based. On the one hand, complex consonant sequences are a common occurrence in the surface representations. On the other hand, syllable structure is very simple: only one distinctive feature bundle (phoneme) may occur in the onset, the nucleus or the coda. The way these two conflicting demands are reconciled is by allowing vowelless sylla bies . Any consonant may act as a syllable nucleus. When astring is syllabified, nuclear status is preferentially assigned to the segments with a higher degree of sonority than their neighbours. Consider for instance the expression below, which is a complete sentence meaning 'remove it (m) and eat it (m)': /kks=t t-ss-t=t/ [k. st. s . t:"] . k. k~t. t. s. . slt. The sentence must be pronounced voiceless throughout, as indicated by the IPA transcription between square brackets ; the syllabic parse given after the IPA transcription indicates that the sentence comprises four syllables (syllable nuclei are underlined). The differences between the dialects of Berber have to do primarily with the phonology and the lexicon.
Intonation In African Tone Languages
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Author : Laura J. Downing
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-11-07
Intonation In African Tone Languages written by Laura J. Downing and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Sound System Of Setswana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 1999
The Sound System Of Setswana written by and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is the first in a series on Setswana language, literature and culture produced by the Department of Africa Languages and Literature at the University of Botswana. It provides a uniquely comprehensive and systematic description of the sound system of the language spoken in Botswana. It deals with speech sounds, namely consonants and vowels, by describing their distinctive properties, their functional roles in the language, representation in the current orthography and their regional variations. The description also looks at other sound phenomena such as vowel lengthening, syllable structure, stress and tone. All new terms and concepts are systematically explained, with many examples.
Topics In Descriptive And African Linguistics
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Author : Samuel Gyasi Obeng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Topics In Descriptive And African Linguistics written by Samuel Gyasi Obeng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African languages categories.
Current Approaches To African Linguistics Vol 6
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Author : Isabelle Haik
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Current Approaches To African Linguistics Vol 6 written by Isabelle Haik and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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African Language Structures
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Author : William E. Welmers
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1974-01-01
African Language Structures written by William E. Welmers and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.
A Comparative Phonology Of Gbe
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Author : Hounkpati Bamikpo Christophe Capo
language : en
Publisher: Publications in African Languages and Linguistics
Release Date : 1991
A Comparative Phonology Of Gbe written by Hounkpati Bamikpo Christophe Capo and has been published by Publications in African Languages and Linguistics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Ewe language categories.
Current Approaches To African Linguistics
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Author : David Odden
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-10-21
Current Approaches To African Linguistics written by David Odden and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Tonal System Of Igbo
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Author : Mary M. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-09-20
The Tonal System Of Igbo written by Mary M. Clark and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.