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Conference Paper: Tone systems in African Romance
| Title | Tone systems in African Romance |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2021 |
| Citation | Invited Lecture, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1 November 2021 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | In this talk, I describe and analyse prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone languages and European Romance languages with stress systems. Equatorial Guinean Spanish, for example, features a two-tone system, fixed word tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in function words, and tonal processes. Tone systems also characterize many African varieties of French and Romance-lexifier creoles that evolved in Afro-European contact ecologies in Africa and the Americas. I will present a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of such prosodic systems. I also discuss the kinds of linguistic ecologies that have produced such typologically interesting contact outcomes in the African and Afro-American branches of the Romance family. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312830 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Yakpo, K | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-19T01:47:00Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-19T01:47:00Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Invited Lecture, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1 November 2021 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312830 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | In this talk, I describe and analyse prosodic systems that have emerged from contact between African tone languages and European Romance languages with stress systems. Equatorial Guinean Spanish, for example, features a two-tone system, fixed word tone patterns, tonal minimal pairs, the arbitrary assignment of tone in function words, and tonal processes. Tone systems also characterize many African varieties of French and Romance-lexifier creoles that evolved in Afro-European contact ecologies in Africa and the Americas. I will present a descriptive and theoretical framework for the analysis of such prosodic systems. I also discuss the kinds of linguistic ecologies that have produced such typologically interesting contact outcomes in the African and Afro-American branches of the Romance family. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Invited Lecture, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Zurich | - |
| dc.title | Tone systems in African Romance | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Yakpo, K: kofi@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Yakpo, K=rp01715 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 330293 | - |