The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals - Studies on African Languages Offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th Birthday

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List of contents

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)

Product details

• Assisted by: Koen Bogers (Editor), Harry van der Hulst (Editor), Marten Mous (Editor), Harr van der Hulst (Editor), Harry van der Hulst (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1986
• EAN: 9783110131093
• ISBN: 978-3-11-013109-3
• No. of pages: 379
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 30 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Illustrations: 1 frontispiece
• Series: Publications in African Languages and Linguistics; Publications in African Languages and Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures