Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone /

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Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information, c1998.
Description:x, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:CSLI lecture notes. no. 82
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2960609
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Other authors / contributors:Hyman, Larry M.
Kisseberth, Charles W.
ISBN:1575860953 (hardback : alk. paper)
1575860945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Semantic/pragmatic conditions on the tonology of the Kongo noun phrase: a diachronic hypothesis
  • 2. Optimality domains theory and Bantu tonology: a case study from Isixhosa and Shingazidja
  • 3. Expansion and retraction of high tone domains in Setswana
  • 4. Tonal domains and depressor consonants in Ikalanga
  • 5. AUX in Bantu morphology and phonology
  • 6. Principles of tone assignment in Tanzanian
  • 7. Tone reduction vs. metrical attraction in the evolution of Eastern Bantu tone systems
  • 8. Constraints on tonal association in Olusamia: an optimality theoretic account