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Download full textClements, G. N. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Many tone languages exhibit some form of downdrift or automatic downstep, the lowering of high tones separated by low tones. In extreme cases, the realization of high tones at the end of a domain (such as the sentence) may be lower than the realization of low tones at the beginning. Tone languages with this property are cross-level tone languages.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Ewe, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
