Angaatiha tone, stress, and length

Tone and stress in Lamba

It has long been observed that not all languages fit neatly into a ‘stress’ vs. ‘tone’ dichotomy. Re

Tumbuka prosody: Between tone and stress

Tumbuka is spoken in the northern Lake Malawi region where it is typical for Bantu languages to have what has been called a restricted tone system: all words must have a High tone. This kind of prosodic system has stress-like properties, and func- tions similar to

Between tone and stress in Hamar

This paper provides a preliminary description of the word-prosodic system of Hamar, a South Omotic language spoken in South West Ethiopia. The prosodic system of Hamar shows properties of both stress accent and tone: accent is lexi- cally contrastive in nouns, but

A unified account of grammatical tone and length in Gã

In Gã [Kwa: Ghana], several aspectual and modal distinctions are exponed through changes in tone. Th

Stress and tone in Yoruba word composition

A note on tone and stress in Cerman

Offprint: Journal of West African languages 15(2):56-60, 1985