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Verbal Tone Patterns in West African Languages

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natural language processing

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paper
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Ida
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Cam
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Tonal analysis has revealed many functions, grammatical as well as semantic, which tone performs in West African languages. Here we confine ourselves to one aspect, the incidence of tone in verbs, and in particular we examine the tonal patterns of verbal forms.

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