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 |
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Format: | article |
Language: | EN FR |
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LibraryPress@UF
1989
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/58aef8444a3b4f768eea3b6fe7e3f7ad |
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