William R Leben

Biographic Data

ID102196
NAMEWilliam R Leben
GIVEN NAMESWilliam R
FAMILY NAMELeben
SIGNATURELEBEN W R
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0000-0003-2602-2315
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Beauty of construction, richness of expression: Paul Newman and the history of Hausa

    Larry M Hyman, William R LebenARTICLEBrill's Journal of Afroasiatic…2023

    A History of the Hausa Language is the first book-length historical study of any language of the Chadic branch of Afro-Asiatic. It synthesizes and updates the scholarly output on the topic by Paul Newman, for many decades Hausa’s most productive and influential scholar. In this review article we discuss Newman’s most striking findings on the history of Hausa’s phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon, adding questions and critiques where called…

  • Newman, Paul & Roxana Ma Newman: Hausa Dictionary: Hausa-English English-Hausa, Ƙamusun Hausa: Hausa-Ingilishi/Ingilishi-Hausa

    William R LebenARTICLEJournal of African Languages and…2021

    Article Newman, Paul & Roxana Ma Newman: Hausa Dictionary: Hausa-English English-Hausa, Ƙamusun Hausa: Hausa-Ingilishi/Ingilishi-Hausa was published on October 1, 2021 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 42, issue 2)

  • Reflexos fonológicos da ênfase em línguas Kwa da Costa do Marfim

    Open AccessWilliam R Leben, Firmin AhouaARTICLERevista Linguíʃtica2021

    Este artigo examina as características fonológicas de expressões que portam ênfase, insistência e contraste em algumas línguas Kwa da Costa do Marfim. Nosso interesse particular é revelar como tais fenômenos são realizados em línguas tonais, e consideramos que valeria a pena estudar mais de uma língua para circunscrever o estudo a um grupo intimamente relacionado. Neste grupo, uma variedade de estratégias fonológicas é utilizada para marcar a ênf…

  • Tone Systems

    Larry M Hyman, William R Leben et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Language Prosody2020

    This chapter presents tonal systems in all their variety, including relatively familiar and unfamiliar facets of tone. Among the parameters that can differ among languages with contrastive pitch levels are the number of phonological levels, the domain of tone features, the presence or absence of accentual properties, whether contour tones behave as single units or sequences of levels, and the presence of downstep and other register phenomena. Ton…

  • The Correspondence between Linguistic Tone and Musical Melody

    Open AccessWilliam R LebenARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

    Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1983), pp. 148-157

  • Phonological reflexes of emphasis in Kwa languages of Cote d'Ivoire

    Open AccessWilliam R Leben, Firmin AhouaARTICLEStudies in African Linguistics2006

    No abstract is available for SAL supplements

  • The Meanings of Consonants

    Open AccessBarbara F Kelly, William R Leben et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2003

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)

  • D. Robert Ladd (1996). Intonational phonology . (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 79.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xv+334

    Open AccessWilliam R LebenARTICLEPhonology1998

    Ladd's Intonational phonology is a substantial addition to an area that has only recently ‘arrived’. Fortunately for the field of intonational phonology, the past two decades have seen a number of seminal contributions from phonologists, including Mark Liberman, Gösta Bruce, Janet Pierrehumbert and Ladd himself. Work on intonation, which has advanced in sync with modern linguistic theory, can also look back on quite a number of rather specific st…

  • English Vocabulary Elements

    Douglas C Walker, Keith Denning et al.ARTICLELanguage1998

  • Prosodic domains in Baule

    Open AccessWilliam R Leben, Firmin AhouaARTICLEPhonology1997Cited by: 4

    This paper deals with the domains of some phonological rules of Baule, a Bia language of the Central Tano group (Stewart 1989) spoken in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Like the other languages in this group, Baule has phonological Low and High tones, and a Low tone lowers the register of following High tones – the phenomenon widely referred to as downdrift. But Baule is distinguished from other members of the Central Tano group (and, indeed, from ot…

  • Tonal feet and the adaptation of English borrowings into Hausa

    Open AccessWilliam R LebenARTICLEStudies in African Linguistics1996Cited by: 3

    This paper investigates how Hausa places a tonal interpretation on stress in English borrowings. A key intermediary in this process is the tonal foot, which is maximally disyllabic. Tonal feet are of two kinds, in complementary distribution in the data. One is interpreted as HL, or falling-toned, the other as High-toned. The analysis represents a significant advance over the less highly structured view that a simple substitution algorithm replace…

  • Vol. 5

    G Tucker Childs, Ulrike Claudi et al.BOOKVol. 51989

  • Upside-Down' Phonology

    William R Leben, Orrin W RobinsonARTICLELanguage1977Cited by: 7

    We here propose and defend a system in which lexical representations of words are expressed in their surface-phonetic isolation forms, and in which phonological rules permit lexical pronunciations to be ‘undone’ in various ways that relate segments to other segments. To the extent that the phonological component is descriptively adequate, it permits morphological rules (which apply after each ‘undoing’ of a phonological rule) to parse lexical rep…

  • Linguistics: African Language Structures . WM. E. Welmers

    Open AccessWilliam R LebenARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1975References: 1