Hypotheses concerning the phonetic and functional origins of tone displacement in Zulu
High tones in Zulu are displaced rightward from their vowel of origin in the context of preceding "depressor" consonants, a segment type traditionally considered to possess breathy phonation. In this paper, I suggest that physical properties of the speech mechanism-phonetic factors-may hav...
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LibraryPress@UF
2000
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