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The intonation of Topic and Focus in Zaar (Chadic, SBW)

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natural language processing

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paperdataset
Creator:
Car
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LanANR
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CCSD
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Capitalizing on my recent work on Afroasiatic corpus and intonation (CorpAfroas 2007-2012), this paper uses a corpus-based analysis to study the part of intonation in the exponents of topic and focus in Zaar, a South-Bauchi Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria.

Languages

BauchiSaya

Tags

FocusTopicInformation StructureNigeriaChadicAfroasiaticLinguisticsIntonationStructure informationnelleTchadique+2

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