Problems in Kuria H tone assignment
| dc.contributor.author | Mwita, L. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marlo, Michael R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paster, Mary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-11T08:45:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-11T08:45:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | DOI 10.1007/s11049-014-9251-y | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In the Buguumbe dialect of Kuria, the assignment of inflectional H tones to the verb poses at least two theoretically significant problems. First, the principles of tone assignment count to four and are not amenable to a metrical analysis, which is problematic for theories of locality. Second, for at least some speakers, the principles of tone assignment are phrase-level processes that refer to the internal structure of the verbal word, which is problematic for the notion of Bracket Erasure within Lexical Phonology | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2015) 33:251–265 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0167-806X | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0859 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/140/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11049-014-9251-y.pdf?auth66=1426064491_5114e4818bf86ad529f89b4a8b4b8561&ext=.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/12362 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_US |
| dc.subject | Counting | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tone | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bantu | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lexical Phonology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Prosodic domains | en_US |
| dc.title | Problems in Kuria H tone assignment | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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