Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language

Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is eviden...

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Autor principal:	Torben Andersen
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1988
Materias:	Pari Nilotic downstep tone Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4b93e34f4c0541dba5ce7cb74b6bc9f82021-11-19T03:54:47ZDownstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language10.32473/sal.v19i3.1074580039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/4b93e34f4c0541dba5ce7cb74b6bc9f81988-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107458https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XPari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is evidence that downstep is the manifestation of a floating high tone. Floating tones thus behave differently from tones of deleted vowels. In spite of many surface differences between Pari and Luo, a related language, a single tone change accounts for their underlying differences.Torben AndersenLibraryPress@UFarticlePariNiloticdownsteptonePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 19, Iss 3 (1988)
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spellingShingle	Pari Nilotic downstep tone Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Torben Andersen Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
description	Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non-automatic downstep. Furthermore, there is evidence that downstep is the manifestation of a floating high tone. Floating tones thus behave differently from tones of deleted vowels. In spite of many surface differences between Pari and Luo, a related language, a single tone change accounts for their underlying differences.
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title	Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
title_short	Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
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title_fullStr	Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language
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Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language

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