Intonation in Bemba

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • L.J. Downing
  • A. Rialland
Book title Intonation in African tone languages
ISBN
  • 9783110484793
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783110503524
  • 9783110499070
Series Phonology and Phonetics
Pages (from-to) 321-364
Publisher Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract An overview of intonation in Bemba looking at the main intonational features used in different sentence types including: Declaratives, subordinate clauses, topicalisation, right dislocation, focus constructions and different question types. The paper begins to unravel the intonational grammar of Bemba - the set of intonational tones used - and illustrates some interaction between tone and intonation.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110503524-010
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Kula_Hamann_2015 (Submitted manuscript)
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