Intonation in SwahiliRoutledge, 2005 M08 8 - 144 pages First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The tonegroup
| 3 |
Chapter 2 Placement of tonic and salient | 11 |
Chapter 3 Extent of tonegroup | 23 |
Chapter 4 Choice of tonegroup | 37 |
Chapter 5 Excursus on breaks | 47 |
Chapter 6 Explication de texte | 53 |
Chapter 7 Previous analyses of Swahili intonation | 61 |
Appendix The analysed texts | 69 |
List of symbols | 133 |
Bibliography | 136 |
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Common terms and phrases
_ Z Speaker accented syllable adjuncts akasema Ambapo ambaye amesubiri analysis Ashton Bagamoyo bahati break bwana clause boundaries Closs coincide context copula deictic dokta downdrift drop tonic examples falling tonic final tone Final tone-groups fulani glottal stop grammatical group boundaries h qn hesitation high level tonic huyu interpolated intonation kama karibu katika kawaida kgmi kidogo Kuhusu kule kumi na mbili kutoka kuwa kwa hiyo kwa sababu kwa vile kwamba Kwani kweli kwenye lakini mbili na nusu mgonjwa mimi mpaka hapa ndio Ndiyo neutral ngapi nilikuwa nisile njiani non-final normally nusu saa nyumbani occur operesheni pause pengine penye phonetic placement Polomé pretonic prominence saa kumi saa mbili safari salient and tonic salient syllable sasa sentence separate tone siku simu special tonality structure Swahili tayari tena thiata tonic syllable tonic type tonics Tonic usingizi utterance verb vocatives wasiwasi wewe word yangu yule