Talking Rhythm Stressing Tone: The Role of Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole LanguagesArawak Publications, 2002 - 207 Seiten "Using an original concept of how prominence works in the phonology, Talking Rhythm Stressing Tone makes a systematic comparison of the suprasegmental systems of the Anglo-West African Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean, South America and West Africa." -- Cover. |
Inhalt
Languages | 22 |
Intonation and Prominence in English | 31 |
Borrowing from StressIntonational Languages into Some Niger | 37 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
5-vowel According adaptation addition already analysis Anglo-West African varieties antepenultimate appears applied associated bearing become borrowing boundary Chapter cognates consisting consonant discussion distinction Djuka domain double early effect English evidence examples exist extrametrical Fall feet final position final syllable final vowel foot function H-tone headed HL melody Huttar immediately influence intonation involves isolation Kongo Krio length lengthening lexical HL lexically assigned marked means monosyllabic non-prominent syllables normal nucleus obstruent occur operation origin pattern penultimate penultimate syllable penultimate vowel phonetic phonological phrase pitch possible preceding presented produced prominent syllable propose realised receives relation represents result rule Saramaccan second syllable seen segmental prominence sentence similar speakers specification spoken spread stem stressed syllable structure suggest surface tonal tone melody treated underlying unit vowel word final word initial Yoruba
Verweise auf dieses Buch
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and Social Implications Geneviève Escure,Armin Schwegler Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Talking Rhythm Stressing Tone: The Role of Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages Caribbean language series |
| Autor/in | Hubert Devonish |
| Verlag | Arawak Publications, 2002 |
| Original von | University of Texas |
| Digitalisiert | 16. Okt. 2008 |
| ISBN | 9768189258, 9789768189257 |
| Länge | 207 Seiten |
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