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) …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

This paper provides a first acoustic analysis of the lexical tones found in Kera'a, an
endangered language spoken in the North-East of India (Arunachal Pradesh). Minimal …

A growing body of recent work asserts that consonant harmony is either limited to child
language, coronal consonants (Rialland and Djamouri 1984, Ní Chiosáin and Padgett 1993 …

The canonical theories of tonogenesis distinguish voiced obstruents as the pitch suppressor
of the following vowels whereas their voiceless counterparts are predicted to raise it (Yip …