The reality of Hausa low tone raising a response

Paul Newman and Philip Jaggar in an article in this issue of Studies in African Linguistics argue that a rule of Low Tone Raising (L TR), proposed in Leben [1971] is not a synchronic rule in Hausa. This rule, as originally fonnulated in Leben [1971], raises a final low tone (L) of a word if the syll...

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Autor principal:	Russell G. Schuh
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1989
Materias:	Low Tone Raising Hausa phonology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5422066843f94dcfb799aa7e181d4ce22021-11-19T03:54:35ZThe reality of Hausa low tone raising a response10.32473/sal.v20i3.1074480039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/5422066843f94dcfb799aa7e181d4ce21989-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107448https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XPaul Newman and Philip Jaggar in an article in this issue of Studies in African Linguistics argue that a rule of Low Tone Raising (L TR), proposed in Leben [1971] is not a synchronic rule in Hausa. This rule, as originally fonnulated in Leben [1971], raises a final low tone (L) of a word if the syllable bearing the L (1) follows a L and (2) has a long vowel. I agree with them that L TR is not a rule; indeed, contrary to their assumption (first paragraph of §2), I would claim that it never has been a rule. The question which I wish to raise is whether there is any synchronic (and/or historical) reality to the phenomenon which originally attracted Leben's attention.Russell G. SchuhLibraryPress@UFarticleLow Tone RaisingHausaphonologyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 20, Iss 3 (1989)
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description	Paul Newman and Philip Jaggar in an article in this issue of Studies in African Linguistics argue that a rule of Low Tone Raising (L TR), proposed in Leben [1971] is not a synchronic rule in Hausa. This rule, as originally fonnulated in Leben [1971], raises a final low tone (L) of a word if the syllable bearing the L (1) follows a L and (2) has a long vowel. I agree with them that L TR is not a rule; indeed, contrary to their assumption (first paragraph of §2), I would claim that it never has been a rule. The question which I wish to raise is whether there is any synchronic (and/or historical) reality to the phenomenon which originally attracted Leben's attention.
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The reality of Hausa low tone raising a response

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