ISBN-13: 9783110484793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 448 str.
ISBN-13: 9783110484793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 448 str.
This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap. "