The phonological representation of suprasegmentals : studies on African languages offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th birthday / Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst and Maarten Mous (eds.).

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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Tone; Tonal Influence on Vocalic Quality; Tone and Grammar in Akan. The Tone of Possessive Constructions in the Asante Dialect; The Analysis of Falling Tones in Ghotuọ; The Autosegmental Representation of Tones in Akan: more Evidence for the Tone Mapping Rule with Reference to Baule; The Tonal Phonology of Siya (a Central-Togo Language) and the Historical Significance of its Major Functions; Tone in the CiRuri Present Continuous; The Representation of Multiple Tone Heights; Downglide, Floating Tones and Non-WH Questions in Ga and Dangme

Contour Tones as Phonemic Primes in GreboThe Igbo Associative and Specific Constructions; Vowel Harmony; The Chameleonic Vowel in the Harmonizing Prefixes of Efik; On Neutral Vowels; Vowel Harmony in Tunen; Segment Structure Rules; The Evaluation of Segment Structure Conditions through the Explicit Statement of their Logical Implications; A Note on Segment Inventories, Redundancy Conditions and A-Rules; Miscellaneous; Syllabification and Epenthesis in the Barra Dialect of Gaelic; Phonetic Features; The Development of Nasalized Vowels in the Teke Language Group (Bantu).

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