Sub-Saharan Africa

Larry M. Hyman; Hannah Sande; Florian Lionnet; Nicholas Rolle; Emily Clem

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.11

Sub-Saharan Africa

Larry M. Hyman, Hannah Sande, Florian Lionnet, Nicholas Rolle, Emily Clem

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This chapter maps out the tonal, accentual, and intonational properties of sub-Saharan African languages, focusing particularly on Niger-Congo. It distinguishes tone systems by the number of contrastive tone heights and contours and their tonal distributions, as well as grammatical functions of tone. It considers positional prominence effects potentially analysed as word accent and concludes with discussion of both intonational pitch and length marking syntactic domains and clause types.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	183-194
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9780198832232
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.11
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

Keywords

contours
intonational pitch
niger-Congo
sub-Saharan Africa
tonal distributions
tone heights
tone systems
word accent

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