A First Look at Tone in the Ncane Noun Phrase
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2015
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Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation
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17 pages
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The current paper is an early effort to describe the tone of the noun phrase. Data for
the research comes primarily from a wordlist and tone frames. The wordlist was elicited in
2006 in the village of Nfume with assistance from Shey Tamfu Ephraim. The tone frames
were collected in 2014-2015 in Bamenda, with the aid of Sjinkwe Thomas.
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Published
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Abbreviations -- Tone Diacritics -- Introduction -- Language Situation -- Corpus and Nature of the Research -- The Nchane Tone System -- Tone of Nouns -- Tone on the Noun Class Prefix -- Tone on Noun Roots -- Phrase Final Lowering of Mid Tones -- Automatic Downstep of High Tones -- Prefix Nasals and Lowering of Gender 1a/2a Mid Tones -- Lowering of Low Tone Roots -- Areas for Further Research -- References
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62151