Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone
Author: George N. Clements
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 3110864460
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The Bantu Languages
Author: Mark Van de Velde
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-30
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 1317628691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.
Tonal Change and Neutralization
Author: Haruo Kubozono
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 3110567504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both. The articles collected in this volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and neutralization, including post-lexical neutralization which represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a whole covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia, Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Asian languages/dialects many of which are endangered now. In addition to presenting novel data and analyses about individual languages, it provides typological perspectives on tonal change and neutralization. This volume will serve as an indispensable source of data and analyses for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics, phonology, prosody, historical linguistics, language typology, endangered languages, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.
A History of African Linguistics
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
African Languages/Langues Africaines
Author: Kahombo Mateene
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-18
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1351596357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 5 (1) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on the Bantu languages in Tanzania. The languages are discussed according to 4 regions of Tanzania and although the sub-grouping is lexicostatistical, the classification is borne out by other consdierations, such as phonology and verbal morphology.
Phonological Theory
Author: John A. Goldsmith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1999-11-08
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0631204695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the key readings in phonological theory. It is designed to complement the outstanding Handbook of Phonological Theory, this volume is ideal as a primary text for course use. It also represents an unparalleled work of reference for anyone interested in recent developments in linguistic theory.
The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution
Author: Jie Zhang
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 113672169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The term “tone language” usually refers to languages in which the pitch of a syllable serves lexical or grammatical functions. In some tone languages, the contrastive functions of pitch are sometimes played by pitch changes within a syllable. Pitch changes of this kind are called contour tones. The distribution of contour tones in a language, are when under what phonological contexts contour tones are more readily realized.
The Phonology of Tone
Author: Keith Snider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3110869373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProsodic Features and Prosodic Structure
Author: Anthony Fox
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-04-19
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0191589764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProsodic Features and Prosodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and learning, expressed in way that will be accessible to all linguists from advanced undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers. The last substantial overview was published over 20 years ago. Since then the subject has been transformed by linked advances in phonological and phonetic theory and accoustic technology. This book will interest phonologists, phoneticians, and researchers in related applied fields such as speech pathology and speech synthesis.
Tone
Author: Victoria A. Fromkin
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2014-05-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1483273768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTone: A Linguistic Survey is a nine-chapter text that considers the phonetics and phonology of tone from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view. The first chapters deal with the physiological and perceptual correlations of tone. These chapters also describe the interactions of tonal and nontonal features. The succeeding chapters provide the phonetic basis for phonological tonal phenomena. These topics are followed by discussions of the physical and physiological aspects of tone, the number of possible contrastive tones in a language, and a suprasegmental representation of tones based on linguistic evidence. This text also summarizes the kinds of tone rules found in languages and the important syntactic function played by tone in a number of the world's languages, particularly those in Africa. The final chapters look into the general and specific principles that constrain historical tone change. This book will prove useful to students with phonology course.
