Feeling the Beat in an African Tone Language: Rhythmic Mapping Between Language and Music

Text-setting patterns in music have served as a key data source in the development of theories of prosody and rhythm in stress-based languages, but have been explored less from a rhythmic perspective in the realm of tone languages. African tone languages have been especially under-studied in terms o...

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Main Authors: Kathryn H. Franich, Ange B. Lendja Ngnemzué
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.653747/full