The relation between the middle tone and empty category principle violations in Krio

An examination of monosyllabic words in Krio reveals the existence of three distinct tones: high. mid and low. words of more than one syllable. However, only two tones are attested: high and low. The mid tone is, in fact, found only in monosyllabic forms in two very specific contexts: citation forms...

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Auteur principal:	Dudley K. Nylander
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Publié:	LibraryPress@UF 1984
Sujets:	Krio tone syntax Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:939e9f340b154aa885a0ea901cc618142021-11-19T03:55:33ZThe relation between the middle tone and empty category principle violations in Krio10.32473/sal.v15i2.1075160039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/939e9f340b154aa885a0ea901cc618141984-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107516https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XAn examination of monosyllabic words in Krio reveals the existence of three distinct tones: high. mid and low. words of more than one syllable. However, only two tones are attested: high and low. The mid tone is, in fact, found only in monosyllabic forms in two very specific contexts: citation forms and sentence final forms. In other contexts. the mid tone ia replaced by the high tone. This suggests that the mid tone is merely a phonetic variant of the high tone. The interaction of tones and syntax is considered.Dudley K. NylanderLibraryPress@UFarticleKriotonesyntaxPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 15, Iss 2 (1984)
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description	An examination of monosyllabic words in Krio reveals the existence of three distinct tones: high. mid and low. words of more than one syllable. However, only two tones are attested: high and low. The mid tone is, in fact, found only in monosyllabic forms in two very specific contexts: citation forms and sentence final forms. In other contexts. the mid tone ia replaced by the high tone. This suggests that the mid tone is merely a phonetic variant of the high tone. The interaction of tones and syntax is considered.
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The relation between the middle tone and empty category principle violations in Krio

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