TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
T1  - What african languages tell us about accent typology
T2  - Papers in phonetics and phonology / editors Susanne Fuchs and Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 37
N2  - The goal of this paper is to survey the accent systems of the indigenous languages of Africa. Although roughly one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, this continent has tended to be underrepresented in earlier stress and accent typology surveys, like Hyman (1977). This one aims to fill that gap. Two main contributions to the typology of accent are made by this study of African languages. First, it confirms Hyman's (1977) earlier finding that (stem-)initial and penult are the most common positions, cross-linguistically, to be assigned main stress. Further, it shows that not only stress but also tone and segment distribution can define prominence asymmetries which are best analyzed in terms of accent.
KW  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Phonologie
KW  - Intonation <Linguistik>
KW  - Adamaua-Ost-Sprachen
KW  - Bantusprachen
KW  - Berbersprachen
KW  - Malagassi-Sprache
KW  - Khoisan
Y1  - 2004
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30917
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309173
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/192.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 37
SP  - 101
EP  - 136
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -