Mwita, L. C.Marlo, Michael R.Paster, Mary2015-03-112015-03-112015Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2015) 33:251–2650167-806X1573-0859http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/140/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11049-014-9251-y.pdf?auth66=1426064491_5114e4818bf86ad529f89b4a8b4b8561&ext=.pdfhttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/12362DOI 10.1007/s11049-014-9251-yIn 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 PhonologyenCountingToneBantuLexical PhonologyProsodic domainsArticle