Tone in Sezo

Sezo has two levels of tone — high and low. The two tones occur on mon-omoraic and bimoraic syllables (i.e. on short and long vowels). Rising (LH) and falling (HL) contour tones have been recorded occurring only on bi-moraic syllables. They are analyzed as composites of the high and low tones squeez...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girma Mengistu Desta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2017-02-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/4419