32.450, Books: Tone in Saxwe: Beavon-Ham

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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:24:07
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Tone in Saxwe: Beavon-Ham

 


Title: Tone in Saxwe 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/tone-in-saxwe 


Author: Virginia Beavon-Ham

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933288 Pages: 365 Price: Europe EURO 38


Abstract:

Tone in Saxwe provides a comprehensive look at the tonal system of a Kwa
language, including an examination of lexical underlying tone patterns as well
as intonational boundary tone and tone which signals grammatical meaning
without the aid of segmental information. While a number of Kwa languages have
been analyzed as having two underlying tones, the author shows in this study
that Saxwe has a three-tone system—likely a result of the historical contact
between a two-tone Gbe language which had depressor consonant-related lowering
effects and a three-tone Yoruboid language.

Included in the analysis is a series of phonetic studies of the details of
tone implementation in Saxwe. The author examines the phenomena known as
automatic downstep and non-automatic downstep and notes the variation that is
observed among speakers as they implement downstep. This book will be of
interest to Africanists, as well as to those interested in tone and intonation
studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Gbe, Saxwe (sxw)


Written In: English  (eng)

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