Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari

This paper studies the downstep phenomenon in Gwari, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and reports that high and mid tones are subject to downstepping in the language. The phenomenon is however blocked in syllables whose onsets contain voiceless obstruents. It is also reported that in th...

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Principais autores:	Adeniyi, Kolawole, Elugbe, Ben
Format:	Artigo
Jezik:	Inglês
Izdano:	Llacan UMR 8135 CNRS/Inalco 2018
Teme:	faille tonale (downstep) obstruantes sourdes constructions associatives morphème tonal Bénoué-Congo de l’Ouest downstep voiceless obstruents associative constructions tonal morpheme West Benue-Congo
Online dostop:	https://doi.org/10.4000/lla.11340 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/i2im https://journals.openedition.org/lla/11340
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