The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals: Studies on African Languages Offered to John M. Stewart on his 60th Birthday: Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, cartea 4

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Tone -- Tonal Influence on Vocalic Quality -- Tone and Grammar in Akan. The Tone of Possessive Constructions in the Asante Dialect -- The Analysis of Falling Tones in Ghotu? -- The Autosegmental Representation of Tones in Akan: more Evidence for the Tone Mapping Rule with Reference to Baule -- The Tonal Phonology of Siya (a Central-Togo Language) and the Historical Significance of its Major Functions -- Tone in the CiRuri Present Continuous -- The Representation of Multiple Tone Heights -- Downglide, Floating Tones and Non-WH Questions in Ga and Dangme -- Contour Tones as Phonemic Primes in Grebo -- The Igbo Associative and Specific Constructions -- Vowel Harmony -- The Chameleonic Vowel in the Harmonizing Prefixes of Efik -- On Neutral Vowels -- Vowel Harmony in Tunen -- Segment Structure Rules -- The Evaluation of Segment Structure Conditions through the Explicit Statement of their Logical Implications -- A Note on Segment Inventories, Redundancy Conditions and A-Rules -- Miscellaneous -- Syllabification and Epenthesis in the Barra Dialect of Gaelic -- Phonetic Features -- The Development of Nasalized Vowels in the Teke Language Group (Bantu)