The tonal system of Igbo /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Dordrecht, Holland ; Providence, RI, U.S.A. :
Foris Publications,
1990.
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Colección: | Publications in African languages and linguistics ;
10. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
- 1. Overview
- 2. An Introduction to Igbo
- 2.1. Syntax
- 2.2. Morphology
- 2.3. Phonology
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: THE NATURE OF THE TONAL REPRESENTATION
- 1. The Separation of the Tonal and non-Tonal Features
- 2. Underspecification in Underlying Representation
- 2.1. The Underlying Representation
- 2.2. Default Tone Assignment
- 2.3. Assignment of Tone by Tonal Affixes
- 2.4. A Comparison with Previous Analyses
- 2.5. Potential Problems
- 3. The Phonological Representation of Downstep
- 3.1. The Distribution of Downstep3.2. The Rule of H Deletion
- 3.3. Downstep and Downdrift
- 3.4. A Comparison with Other analyses
- 4. Conclusion
- 5. Rule Summary
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICAL PHONOLOGY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cyclicity
- 3. The Word Level
- 4. The Root and Stem Levels
- 4.1. The Argument from Morphological Ordering
- 4.2. The Argument from ATR Harmony
- 4.3. Palatalization
- 5. The Organization of the Lexical Phonology
- 6. Strict Cyclicity
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Strict Cyclicity in Reduplicated Nouns7. Rule Ordering
- 7.1. Ordering Relationships That Follow from the Level Ordering
- 7.2. Ordering Relationships That Follow from the Cyclical Application of Rules
- 7.3. Ordering That Follows from a “Feeding� Relationship Between Rules
- 7.4. Ordering by the Elsewhere Condition
- 7.5. Positive Advantages of Free Ordering Within the Level
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. Rule Summary
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: THE PHRASAL PHONOLOGY
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Two Phrasal Levels
- 2.1. H Deletion
- 2.2. Vowel Assimilation2.3. Phrase Level I and Phrase Level II
- 2.4. Falling Contour Simplification
- 2.5. Middle H Deletion
- 3. he Role of Syntactic Structure in the Postlexical Phonology
- 3.1. Syntactic Structure in Phonological Rules
- 3.2. The Branching Condition
- 4. The Role of Prosodic Structure in the Phrasal Phonology
- 4.1. Intonational Phrasing
- 4.2. The Lack of Evidence for Other Levels of Prosodic Structure
- 5. Coalescence and Syllable Shortening
- 5.1. Coalescence
- 5.2. Feature Sharing and Long Syllable Shortening
- 6. On Conditions of the Form “X is Unspecified for [F]�7. Conclusion
- 8. Rule Summary
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: VERBS AND VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Inflectional Morphology of the Verb
- 2.1. The Inflectional Affixes
- 2.2. The Assignment of Inflectional Features
- 3. The Tonal Melody of the Verb
- 4. The [+ASSERTIVE] INFL Particle
- 5. The Tonal Alternation in the NP That Follows the Verb
- 6. The Subject Prefixes
- 7. The Relative Clause Forms
- 8. The “Question� Forms
- 9. The Sequential Forms