Intonation in Swahili

accent manifestation accented syllable adjunct akasema ambaye amesubiri analysis anatakiwa andthe Ashton Bagamoyo bahati bwana clause boundaries Closs’s coincide context copula deictic deixis downdrift drop tonic emphasis examples falling tonic final tone­group front­shifted fulani grammatical hapa hesitation huyu inthe intonation kama kama saa karibu kasoro dakika katika kawaida kazi kidogo kuhusu kule kumi na mbili kutoka kuwa kwa hiyo kwa vile kwamba Kwani kweli kwenye lakini lexical mbili na nusu mgonjwa mimi mpaka saa mwendo mwenzako nani hii ndio nilikuwa njiani non­final tone­groups normally nyumbani nzima occurs ofthe onthe operesheni pale pause pengine penye phonetic pitch placement Polomé preceding pretonic prominence robo saa saa kumi saa mbili sababu safari salient syllable salient­cum­tonic sasa sentence separate tone­group siku simu sindano siwezi Speaker special tonality structure Swahili tena thesalient thetonic thiata tobe tone­ tone­group boundary tonic syllables upesi usingizi utterance vocatives wewe word yangu yule