Topics in Taita tone II

This paper describes aspects of tone in the Mbololo dialect of Taita, compariing it to the Dembwa dialect described in Odden (2001). A salient feature of tone in the language is a covert lexical distinction between words with final H versus those with no final tone. Phrasal tone alternations provide...

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Main Author: David Odden
Format: article
Language:EN
FR
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2006
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c4af57d2109a4003adcfdc0381f582fe
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