Phonological reflexes of emphasis in Kwa languages of Côte D’Ivoire
This paper examines the phonological characteristics of expressions conveying emphasis, insistence, and contrast in some Kwa languages of Côte d’Ivoire. Our particular interest is to reveal how such phenomena are realized in tonal languages, and we thought it worthwhile to study more than one langua...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Revista Linguística |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/54533 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the phonological characteristics of expressions conveying emphasis, insistence, and contrast in some Kwa languages of Côte d’Ivoire. Our particular interest is to reveal how such phenomena are realized in tonal languages, and we thought it worthwhile to study more than one language yet to confine the study to a closely related group. In this group a variety of phonological strategies are used to mark emphasis, including prosodic devices that have not been widely reported in the literature for Niger-Congo languages, and that may or may not differ from other language groups. Thus, our goal was to capture the various phonological means for expressing emphasis in the Kwa languages of Côte d`Ivoire. For that purpose, we surveyed emphasis marking in several Kwa languages, collecting both phonological reflexes of emphasis that go beyond the emphatic particles and raised intonations that are most frequently cited. |
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| ISSN: | 1808-835X 2238-975X |