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Tone association and F₀ timing in Chichewa

Author(s) -

Scott Myers

Publication year - 1999

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.v28i2.107375

Subject(s) - tone (literature) , phrase , syllable , bantu languages , duration (music) , linguistics , representation (politics) , mathematics , speech recognition , computer science , acoustics , physics , philosophy , political science , politics , law

In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final positions. No phonetic support was found for the assumption in the literature that a phrase-medial high tone is spread over two syllables. Instead, it was found that such a high tone is realized with a significantly later fO peak than a high tone in the last two syllables. On the other hand, support was found for Kanerva's proposal that a phrase-final high tone is shifted in phonological representation to the phrase-penultimate syllable.

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