Subtonal features in a three-tone language: Evidence from Laal

Autor: Florian Lionnet

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. 9

In this paper, I provide arguments in favor of subtonal features, with data from Laal, an endangered, three-tone isolate language of southern Chad. I show that a system using the two features [upper] and [raised] (Yip 1980, Pulleyblank 1986) offers a

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https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.5136

Areal patterns in the vowel systems of the Macro-Sudan Belt

Autor: Matthew Faytak, Florian Lionnet, Nicholas Rolle

Publikováno v: Linguistic Typology. 24:113-179

This paper investigates the areal distribution of vowel systems in the Macro-Sudan Belt, an area encompassing most of the western and central parts of northern Sub-Saharan Africa. We report on a survey of 681 language varieties with entries coded for

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https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0028

Sub-Saharan Africa

Autor: Larry M. Hyman, Hannah Sande, Florian Lionnet, Nicholas Rolle, Emily Clem

This chapter maps out the tonal, accentual, and intonational properties of sub-Saharan African languages, focusing particularly on Niger-Congo. It distinguishes tone systems by the number of contrastive tone heights and contours and their tonal distr

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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.11

Phantom structure: A representational account of floating tone association

Autor: Florian Lionnet, Nicholas Rolle

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. 8

This paper focuses on the association of floating tones. One type we call "phonological association", where the tone-bearing unit (TBU) the floating tone associates to is determined by the phonological grammar, e.g. to a default position like a stres

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https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v8i0.4744

The Bua Group noun class system: Looking for a historical interpretation

Autor: Pascal Boyeldieu, Raimund Kastenholz, Florian Lionnet, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer

Publikováno v: Language in Africa (Moscow & St Petersburg)
Language in Africa (Moscow & St Petersburg), 2020, Special issue on the Adamawa languages, 1 (3), pp.181-215

International audience; The way Bua languages express number on nouns mostly consists ofalternating suffi xes that bear witness of a former classifi cation system. However,Kulaal is the only present-day language where these markers are not frozen but

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