Investigating the tonal contours of Sawi nouns : A contrastive analysis with established tonal features of Palula
This study explores whether or not tonal contours are a contrastive feature in Sawi nouns. It aims to provide evidence towards the claim that Sawi has lost contrastive tones and provide a basis from which further research into how the use of qualitative vowel differences may have replaced the pitch...
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| Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-136539 |