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Title The phonological representation of suprasegmentals : studies on African languages offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th birthday / Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst and Maarten Mous (eds.)
Published Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Series Publications in African languages and linguistics ; 4
Publications in African languages and linguistics ; 4.
Contents Intro; 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 Ghotuọ; 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 GreboThe 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)
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Subject Stewart, John M. (John Massie), 1926-
SUBJECT Stewart, John M. (John Massie), 1926- fast
Subject African languages -- Phonology
African languages -- Prosodic analysis
African languages -- Grammar, Comparative
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
African languages -- Grammar, Comparative
African languages -- Phonology
Form Electronic book
Author Bogers, Koen.
Hulst, Harry van der.
Mous, Maarten.
ISBN 9783110866292
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