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How to Study a Tone Language, with Exemplification from Oku (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon)
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Hyman, Larry M. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
In response to requests I have often got as to how one approaches a tone language, I present a personal view of the three stages involved, starting from scratch and arriving at an analysis: Stage I: Determining the tonal contrasts and their approximate phonetic allotones. Stage II: Discovering any tonal alternations ("morphotonemics").…
Descriptors: Language Research, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, African Languages