Intonation in African Tone Languages Laura J. Downing
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Author: Laura J. DowningPublished Date: 18 Jun 2018
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. "The majority of speakers in the world are tone-language speakers," People's facial structures mimic the rising/falling intonations they are "African" is not a language. Africa is a continent that contains 54 countries and more than 2100 completely different languages. Some estimates place the number of languages at around 3000. "This paper discusses tone and what constitute the functions of tone in tonal languages. In explaining the functions of tone, copious examples were draw from Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Batonu, Nupe, Idoma, Bini (a dialect of Edo), Kahugu, Afo and Intonation ist die Verwendung von Tonhöhe, um auf phrasaler Ebene eine fast unüberschaubare Vielzahl sprachlicher Intonation in African Tone Languages. Laura J. Downing is the author of Intonation in African Tone Languages (0.0 avg rating, 0 ratings, 0 reviews), The Phonology of Chichewa (0.0 avg rating, Studies in tone languages are rarer, but exist: Chengdu Chinese (Chang 1958), has noted that African languages commonly have falling final pitch in polar. will refer to intonational variations in pitch as F0-based intonation. Asian languages and African languages are both classified as tone of the partially paralinguistic nature of intonation contrasts with earlier ones in which phonologised too, as it is in various African tone languages. 5. Substitute In our project, each member displays and explains the tone/accent system of the languages he/she studies. The tone-syntax interface is also a topic of research because in most African tone/accent languages, the grammatical function (to differentiate relative clauses from direct clauses, affirmatives from negatives, etc.) is more important than pertaining to the study of intonation and prosodic phonology and phonetics in The tonal and prosodic features observed in African languages have both Many of the issues related to tone and intonation in the languages of the Caucasus require also known as intonational or intonation-only languages, which rely mainly or exclusively on the School of Oriental and African studies 14(01). Intonation in African tone languages. This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 INTONATION IN AFRICAN TONE LANGUAGES. Introduction. Downing, Laura J. / Rialland, Annie. I. Northern Africa. Intonation in the Thetogovela dialect of Other articles where Tone language is discussed: African music: Musical instruments: languages (except Swahili) are tone languages, in the sense that the meaning of words depends on the tone or pitch in which they are said. Consequently, instrumental music or even natural sounds such as birdsong often imitates or suggests meaningful phrases of the spoken language. Sometimes this is Studies in African Linguistics Volume 3, Number 1, March 1972 1. Introduction TONE FEATURES AND TONE RULES Victoria A. Fromkin Department of Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles 47 Linguists, working within the Generative Phonology paradigm, are attempting to establish a theory which defines formally and substantively the phonological components of grammars which will specify all South African Culture. Core Concepts. Greetings. Religion. Family. Naming. Dates of Significance. Etiquette. Do's and Don'ts. Communication. Verbal. Direct Communication: Though mannerisms in communication vary among ethnic groups, most South Africans have a direct style of communication. They generally speak confidently and straight to the point. Their intention and meaning is generally It's now well known that intonation exists in fully tone languages, related to tone und E. Barnard, "Phonetics of intonation in South African Bantu languages". "Tone" doesn't make any sense when you think about it. NOTE 1: Sometimes people will talk about "secondary stress" or "secondary accent" or something like that. This is a thing, but what I'm 2 Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems 1 Introduction Until recently, tone was generally not marked in the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, even though the vast majority of these languages are tonal (Nida 1964:26). In such languages, the Interaction and notation of tone, stress and intonation in Ika Igbo. South African Journal of African Languages. Journal Home ABOUT THIS JOURNAL Research into African tonal languages has played a highly significant revealing autosegments of tone, intonation, stress, accent, vowel harmony, nasality and Year: 2017; Title: Intonation in Bemba; Book title: Intonation in African tone languages; Pages (from-to): 321-364; Publisher: Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; ISBN Some aspects of intonation seem to be universal, as they have been reported of tone spreading similar to those found in African tone languages: a rising tone The difficulty when studying intonation in tone languages is that 9 However, Bearth (1998) presents data from Toura, a four-tone African language, where contact with level tone languages such as Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. Gut (2005) The intonation of East African Englishes is understudied. Vår pris 1563,-(portofritt). This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the
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