Cameroun

Table of charts and figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Information on the language -- 1.1 Previous research -- 2. Consonants -- 2.1 Consonant phoneme inventory -- 2.1.1 Plosives -- 2.1.2 Affricates -- 2.1.3 Fricatives -- 2.1.4 Nasals -- 2.1.5 Approximants -- 2.2 Consonant modifications -- 2.2.1 Labialized consonants -- 2.2.2 Palatalized consonants -- 3. Vowels -- 3.1 Vowel phoneme inventory -- 3.1.1 Front vowels -- 3.1.2 Central vowels -- 3.1.3 Back vowels -- 3.2 Nasalized vowels -- 4. Syllable structure -- 4.1 Basic syllable types -- 4.2 Modified syllable types -- 4.3 Noun roots -- 4.4 Verb roots -- 5. Phonotactics -- 5.1 Distribution of consonants -- 5.1.1 Onset consonants -- 5.1.2 Coda consonants -- 5.2 Distribution of vowels -- 5.2.1 Closed syllables -- 5.2.2 Open syllables -- 5.3 Distribution of syllables -- 6. Tone -- 6.1 Grammatical tone -- 6.2 Lexical tone -- 6.2.1 Level tone -- 6.2.2 Contour tone -- 6.3 Tone on nouns -- 6.3.1 Tone on nominal prefixes -- 6.3.2 Tone on noun roots -- 6.4 Tone in multimorpheme lexemes -- 6.5 Tone on verbs -- 6.5.1 Tone on verb roots -- 6.5.2 Tone on verb stems -- 7. Morphophonemics -- 7.1 Epenthesis -- 7.2 Elision -- 7.3 Coalescence -- 7.4 Reduplication -- Conclusion -- References