Tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase

Urhobo is an Edoid language spoken extensively in Delta State, Nigeria. This paper examines tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase with a view to providing more data that can lead to a better understanding of tonal behavior in Edoid languages. The language has two basic tones, high and low, tw...

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Auteur principal:	Rose O. Aziza
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Publié:	LibraryPress@UF 2003
Sujets:	Urhobo Edoid tone downstep noun phrases Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9a74f984250b4d8fae80f658b20a0f5a2021-11-19T03:53:20ZTonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase10.32473/sal.v32i2.1073410039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/9a74f984250b4d8fae80f658b20a0f5a2003-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107341https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XUrhobo is an Edoid language spoken extensively in Delta State, Nigeria. This paper examines tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase with a view to providing more data that can lead to a better understanding of tonal behavior in Edoid languages. The language has two basic tones, high and low, two gliding tones, high-low (falling) and low-high (rising), plus a phenomenon of downstep, both automatic and non-automatic. A number of noun phrases are examined here and, as will become obvious later, the language relies heavily on tone to express many grammatical categories. The main points of interest from this study include the preservation of H at the expense of L, the fact that the loss of L does not result in downstep, that 'H plus following H can give H so the down step can be deleted, and that there are syntactically conditioned floating H tones in certain constructions.Rose O. AzizaLibraryPress@UFarticleUrhoboEdoidtonedownstepnoun phrasesPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 32, Iss 2 (2003)
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topic	Urhobo Edoid tone downstep noun phrases Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Urhobo Edoid tone downstep noun phrases Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Rose O. Aziza Tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase
description	Urhobo is an Edoid language spoken extensively in Delta State, Nigeria. This paper examines tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase with a view to providing more data that can lead to a better understanding of tonal behavior in Edoid languages. The language has two basic tones, high and low, two gliding tones, high-low (falling) and low-high (rising), plus a phenomenon of downstep, both automatic and non-automatic. A number of noun phrases are examined here and, as will become obvious later, the language relies heavily on tone to express many grammatical categories. The main points of interest from this study include the preservation of H at the expense of L, the fact that the loss of L does not result in downstep, that 'H plus following H can give H so the down step can be deleted, and that there are syntactically conditioned floating H tones in certain constructions.
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Tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase

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