Characteristics of Omotic tone Shinasha Borna

The article provides some phonological background and outlines the tonal system of Shinasha (Borna), an isolated North Omotic language of Ethiopia. There are two contrasting tones. Their behaviour shows characteristics which have also been observed for other Omotic languages: stability of lexical to...

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Autores principales:	Ashenafi Tesfaye, Klaus Wedekind
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1990
Materias:	tone Shinasha Omotic lexical tone pitch Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fb10aef77bd344969f54a9ecd46789ff2021-11-19T03:54:24ZCharacteristics of Omotic tone Shinasha Borna10.32473/sal.v21i3.1074320039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/fb10aef77bd344969f54a9ecd46789ff1990-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107432https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe article provides some phonological background and outlines the tonal system of Shinasha (Borna), an isolated North Omotic language of Ethiopia. There are two contrasting tones. Their behaviour shows characteristics which have also been observed for other Omotic languages: stability of lexical tone, limited use of tone in the syntax, and absence of sandhi. The article provides new evidence that vowel quality can have a strong influence on the tonetic realisation: Shinasha is not the only Omotic language where high vowel quality is associated with extra high pitch.Ashenafi TesfayeKlaus WedekindLibraryPress@UFarticletoneShinashaOmoticlexical tonepitchPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 21, Iss 3 (1990)
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description	The article provides some phonological background and outlines the tonal system of Shinasha (Borna), an isolated North Omotic language of Ethiopia. There are two contrasting tones. Their behaviour shows characteristics which have also been observed for other Omotic languages: stability of lexical tone, limited use of tone in the syntax, and absence of sandhi. The article provides new evidence that vowel quality can have a strong influence on the tonetic realisation: Shinasha is not the only Omotic language where high vowel quality is associated with extra high pitch.
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Characteristics of Omotic tone Shinasha Borna

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