A comparative study of tone of West Ugandan Bantu Languages, with particular focus on the tone loss in Tooro
- The aim of this paper is to try to explain how the Tooro system, which phonologically lacks tone, has come into being, by examining comparatively the tone system of each language itself and also by closely looking at the differences which exist among the Haya, Ankole and Nyoro systems (Kiga data insufficient) in order to look for phonetic reasons of the tone changes.
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| Author: | Shigeki Kaji |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310493 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/1106.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers from the Workshop on Bantu Relative Clauses : [held in Paris on 8 - 9 January 2010] / Laura Downing, ... (eds.), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 53, S. 99-107 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Ton <Phonologie>; Tonologie; Bantusprachen; Uganda <West > |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 99 |
| Last Page: | 107 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381154874 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 53 = Papers from the Workshop on Bantu Relative Clauses |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310246 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
