Intonation in African Tone Languages

Laura Downing , Annie Rialland (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

The volume brings together two-underinvestigated 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.

Mots clés: Intonation Afrique

Domaines: Linguistique

Laura Downing, Annie Rialland. Intonation in African Tone Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, 2016, Aditi Lahiri, 978-3-11-048479-3. ⟨halshs-01483690⟩