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Download full textDemuth, Katherine – 1989
An autosegmental account of the child's acquisition of grammatical tone in Sesotho, a southern Bantu language, is presented. The following theoretical questions are addressed: (1) When and how does the child figure out that Sesotho is a tonal rather than intonational, stress, or accentual language?; (2) How does the child acquire tonal rules?; and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bantu Languages, Case Studies, Child Language
