A Dynamic Treatment of Tone with Special Attention to the Tonal System of Igbo |
Common terms and phrases
accent affirmative completive apply associative autosegmental theory beginning Cliticization common noun possessive consonant contains no tone downstep drop in pitch dynamic-tone theory Ekwe example fact falling glide feature gliding tone Haraguchi high tone high-toned Igbo Internal Deletion intonation contour Kikuyu Left Streamlining level-tone lexical representation lexical structure condition lexical tone contours Liberman Like-Tone-Marker Deletion low tone low-toned main clause Metathesis metrical tree miyako city morpheme nasal consonant negative Northern Tepehuan obstruent Osaka phonological rules pitch drop pitch rise pitch-accent possessive noun phrase preceding prefix pronoun proper noun possessive Retraction rule of Like-Tone-Marker s.c. Delete sequence Serbo-Croatian stressed syllable structural description subordinate clause suffix syll syllabic nasal syllabic segment syllable syntactic Tokyo Japanese tonal tone change tone languages tone level tone melody tone rules tone segment tone-bearing unit underlying form underlying representation verb forms verb radical Verb-final Tone Marker vowel word boundary