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Maddieson, Ian – York Papers in Linguistics, 1991
A study investigated the validity of three theories in predicting the structure of language tone systems containing level tones. The theories include the following: that (1) phonetic elements are arranged so they are maximally separated in a fixed phonetic space; (2) a system with a larger number of phonetic elements will use a larger phonetic…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Hausa
