Low tone raising in Hausa a critical assessment

Low tone raising (LTR) refers to a phonological rule postulated for Hausa by Leben [1971], whereby word-final Low-Low sequences change to Low-High if the final vowel is long. In the first part of the paper, we show that counterexamples to the rule are considerably more numerous and more varied than...

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Main Authors: Paul Newman, Philip J. Jaggar
Format: article
Language:EN
FR
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1989
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/58aef8444a3b4f768eea3b6fe7e3f7ad
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