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The relation between the middle tone and empty category principle violations in Krio

Author(s) -

Dudley K. Nylander

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

studies in african linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.178

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2154-428X

pISSN - 0039-3533

DOI - 10.32473/sal.v15i2.107516

Subject(s) - tone (literature) , linguistics , syllable , sentence , syntax , psychology , relation (database) , philosophy , computer science , database

An examination of monosyllabic words in Krio reveals the existence of three distinct tones: high. mid and low. words of more than one syllable. However, only two tones are attested: high and low. The mid tone is, in fact, found only in monosyllabic forms in two very specific contexts: citation forms and sentence final forms. In other contexts. the mid tone ia replaced by the high tone. This suggests that the mid tone is merely a phonetic variant of the high tone. The interaction of tones and syntax is considered.

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