Intonation in African Tone Languages
Publisher: De Gruyter, Inc.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9783110503524
Subjects: African languages, phonology
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.