Cameroon

Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1 Previous Research -- 2 Consonants -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Unmodified Consonant Inventory -- 2.3 Consonant Contrasts -- 2.4 Modified Consonants -- 2.4.1 Labialised Consonants -- 2.4.2 Palatalised Consonants -- 2.5 Consonant Allophonic Variation -- 2.5.1 Free Variation -- 2.5.2 Nasal Assimilation -- 2.5.3 Syllabic Nasals -- 2.5.4 Labio-dental Fricative Offglides --Vowels -- 3.1 Vowel Inventory and Phonetic Description -- 3.2 Vowel Contrasts -- 3.3 Vowel Nasalisation -- 3.3.1 Nasalised Vowel Contrasts -- 3.4 Vowel Length -- 3.5 Vowel-Vowel Sequences -- 3.6 Vowel Allophonic Variation -- 3.6.1 The Low Front Vowel -- 3.6.2 The High Back Vowel --Tone -- 4.1 Level and Contour Tones -- 4.2 Tone and Vowel Length -- 4.3 Functionality of Tone -- 5 Phonotactics -- 5.1 Syllable Types -- 5.2 Syllable Constraints -- 6 Word Structure -- 6.1 Nouns -- 6.2 Verbs -- 7 Morphophonemic Processes -- 7.1 Glide Formation -- 7.2 Vowel Deletion -- 7.3 Labialvelar Formation -- 8 Further Research -- 9 Conclusion -- References