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Download full textAziza, Rose O. – 2002
This paper focuses on tonal alternations in the Urhobo noun phrase. Urhobo is an Edoid language spoken extensively in Delta State, Nigeria. The language has two basic tones, high and low, plus a phenomenon of downstep, both automatic and non-automatic. The noun phrases examined include the noun + noun associative construction, the noun + relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intonation, Morphophonemics, Nouns
