The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic
The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the criterion of obligatoriness of every word having...
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Stellenbosch University
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus |
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| Online Access: | https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/898 |