Intonation in African Tone Languages

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.

About the author

Laura Downing, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Annie Rialland, CNRS, Paris, France.

Product details

• Assisted by: Laura J. Downing (Editor), Annie Rialland (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783110484793
• ISBN: 978-3-11-048479-3
• No. of pages: 442
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 27 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 776 g
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics; Phonology and Phonetics [PP]; Phonology and Phonetics; Phonology and Phonetics [PP]; ISSN; Phonology and Phonetics [PP], 24
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures