
Intonation in African Tone Languages
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2017
Book
Mixed media product
VI, 442 pages
978-3-11-050353-1 (ISBN)
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Description
This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world's languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world's languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-11-050353-1 (9783110503531)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Laura Downing, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Annie Rialland, CNRS, Paris, France.