FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2767540717> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2767540717 abstract "UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report (2008) Issues in African language phonology Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley [The following is my section of a joint chapter “Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues“ with Denis Creissels and Jeff Good to appear in the Africa volume (Tom Gueldemann, ed.) in the “Fields of Linguistics” Series (Hans Hock, ed.; Mouton de Gruyter)]. Introduction In this section I discuss some of the major phonological properties of African languages that are of particular significance for general linguistics. The historical relation between African and general phonology has been a mutually beneficial one: the languages of the African continent provide some of the most interesting and, at times, unusual phonological phenomena, which have contributed to the development of phonology in quite central ways. This has been made possible by the careful descriptive work that has been done on African languages, by linguists and non-linguistics, and by Africanists and non-Africans who have peeked in from time to time. Except for the click consonants of the Khoisan languages (which spill over into some neighboring Bantu languages that have “borrowed” them), the phonological phenomena found in African languages are usually duplicated elsewhere on the globe, though not always in as concentrated a fashion. The vast majority of African languages are tonal, and many also have vowel harmony (especially the types known as ATR- and vowel-height harmony). Not surprisingly, then, African languages have figured disproportionately in theoretical treatments of these two phenomena. On the other hand, if there is a phonological property where African languages are underrepresented, it would have to be stress systems—which rarely, if ever, achieve the complexity found in other (mostly non-tonal) languages. However, it should be noted that African languages have contributed significantly to virtually every other aspect of general phonology. Given the considerable diversity of the properties found in different parts of the continent, as well as in different genetic groups or areas, it will not be possible to provide a comprehensive account of the phonological phenomena found in African languages, overviews of which are available in such works as Creissels (1994) and Clements (2000). Most recently, Clements & Rialland (2008) treat African phonology from an areal perspective. Drawing from a database of 150 African languages, they address a range of phonological properties which have significant African distributions as compared with a non-African database of 345 languages. They begin with three consonant types which are characteristic of languages within their “Sudanic belt”, a vast area which stretches from Senegal in the West, “bounded roughly by the Sahel to the north and the equatorial rain forest to the south” (p.38): (i) Labial flaps are found “in at least seventy African languages, heavily concentrated in the center of the Sudanic belt in an area encompassing northern Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), and adjoining parts of Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)” (p.41). (ii) The labiovelar stops /kp/ and /gb/ which have 54 attestations each, followed by /Ngb/ (13) and /Nm/ (7)." @default.
• W2767540717 created "2017-11-17" @default.
• W2767540717 creator A5064362701 @default.
• W2767540717 date "2008-01-01" @default.
• W2767540717 modified "2023-09-25" @default.
• W2767540717 title "Issues in African Language Phonology" @default.
• W2767540717 cites W139013416 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1482843464 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W148325637 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1529863271 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1537169070 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1562911371 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1579605689 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1598851216 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1680488724 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1772154749 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W184215230 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1858775130 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1963920542 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1984171833 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W1993122213 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2007120773 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2010852867 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2025449002 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2030760685 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2037740479 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2045564529 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2057108792 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2065347339 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2066122504 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2082215629 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2098987523 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2113888573 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2136021561 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2141620535 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2164105151 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W217036116 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2226384840 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2262424728 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2430887829 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2490855574 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2492285973 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2499880131 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W2612779136 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W300893532 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W54436307 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W582821676 @default.
• W2767540717 cites W62613281 @default.
• W2767540717 doi "https://doi.org/10.5070/p71808w29w" @default.
• W2767540717 hasPublicationYear "2008" @default.
• W2767540717 type Work @default.
• W2767540717 sameAs 2767540717 @default.
• W2767540717 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2767540717 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2767540717 hasAuthorship W2767540717A5064362701 @default.
• W2767540717 hasBestOaLocation W27675407171 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConcept C148934300 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConceptScore W2767540717C138885662 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConceptScore W2767540717C148934300 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConceptScore W2767540717C41008148 @default.
• W2767540717 hasConceptScore W2767540717C41895202 @default.
• W2767540717 hasLocation W27675407171 @default.
• W2767540717 hasOpenAccess W2767540717 @default.
• W2767540717 hasPrimaryLocation W27675407171 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W1531636394 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W1552926714 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W1992411448 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2081547736 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2184765982 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2248387127 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2364809218 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2479658425 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W2612834414 @default.
• W2767540717 hasRelatedWork W291561599 @default.
• W2767540717 hasVolume "4" @default.
• W2767540717 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2767540717 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2767540717 magId "2767540717" @default.
• W2767540717 workType "article" @default.