This thesis uses acoustic measurements as a basis for the phonological analysis of the
interaction of tone with voicing and foot structure in Kera (a Chadic language). In both tone …

This paper sets out to investigate the relative role of Voice Onset Time (VOT) and
fundamental frequency in a language with lexical tone. By comparing English and the …

This paper examines the cues for and interaction between the metrical and tonal systems of
Kera. Kera has no word-level stress, but the heads of its quantity-sensitive iambic feet are …

Kera (a Chadic language) has been cited as one of a handful of languages which exhibit
long distance voicing harmony between consonants (Rose and Walker 2001, Odden 1994) …

Kera (a Chadic language) has 6 vowels, 3 of which have+/-ATR allophones.[+ ATR] vowels
appear in non-heads of feet and [-ATR] vowels in heads and elsewhere. This binary …

This paper presents the evidence that the phonological rule of longdistance voicing
assimilation claimed to exist in Kera (Odden 1994, Rose and Walker 2004 and Uffmann …

Since the publication of Pike (1948), it has often been assumed that tone systems fall into
two types:(i) Chinese, Vietnamese, and nearby languages of East and Southeast Asia are …

This paper presents the results of an acoustical investigation of the effects of various
consonant types on the tone of a following vowel in Siamese. In general, it is found that after …

The aim of this chapter is to link the major aspects of suprasegmental phonology discussed
in this part of the Handbook (ie tone–Yip Ch. 10, Gussenhoven Ch. 11; sonority–Zec Ch. 8; …

This chapter provides a summary of the prosodic systems of varieties of Chinese spoken in
mainland China and Taiwan as well as languages in Siberia, in particular Ket. What the …