2013/01/01 by Michael R. Marlo · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
paper · doi:10.3406/aflin.2013.1020
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This paper describes the process of studying the notoriously complex verbal tone systems of Bantu languages through the systematic elicitation of paradigmatic data. The main thrust of this paper is the delineation of the factors known to influence tonal outputs in Bantu languages, providing background on the micro-typology of Bantu verbal tone systems, with discussion of how these considerations impact the data-gathering process.