Al Mtenje
Biographic Data
| ID | 384278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Al Mtenje |
| FAMILY NAME | Al Mtenje |
| SIGNATURE | AL MTENJE |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malawi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On relative clauses and prosodic phrasing in Ciwandya
The interaction between Syntax and Phonology has been one area of interesting empirical research and theoretical debate in recent years, particularly the question of the extent to which syntactic structure influences phonological phrasing. It has generally been observed that the edges of the major syntactic constituents (XPs) tend to coincide with prosodic phrase boundaries thus resulting in XPs like subject NPs, object NPs, Topic NPs, VPs etc. f…
Un-Wrap-ing prosodic phrasing in Chichewa
Prosody of relative clauses in Chewa
This paper tests three current theories of the phonology-syntax interface – Truckenbrodt (1995), Pak (2008) and Cheng & Downing (2007, 2009) – on the prosody of relative clauses in Chewa. Relative clauses, especially restrictive relative clauses, provide an ideal data set for comparing these theories, as they each make distinct predictions about the optimal phrasing. We show that the asymmetrical phase-edge based approach developed to account for…
Tone in Cindali
Prosody and information structure in Chichewa
This paper presents preliminary results of a phonetic and phonological study of the Ntcheu dialect of Chichewa spoken by Al Mtenje (one of the co-authors). This study confirms Kanerva's (1990) work on Nkhotakota Chichewa showing that phonological re-phrasing is the primary cue to information structure in this language. It expands on Kanerva's work in several ways. First, we show that focus phrasing has intonational correlates, namely, the manipul…
The basic colour terms of Chichewa
Extralinguistic constraints on rule application in Chichewa and Chiyao phonology
On the inadmissibility of feature‐changing rules in phonological theory: Evidence from Chiyao
On the inadmissibility of feature‐changing rules in phonological theory: Evidence from Chiyao
On tone and transfer in Chicheŵa reduplication
In defence of the autosegmental treatment of nonconcatenative morphology
The aim of this paper is to defend the autosegmental account of nonconcatenative morphology originally proposed by McCarthy (1979, 1981), which has been seriously challenged by Hudson (1986). It is argued that an autosegmental analysis of nonconcatenative morphology such as that of Arabic still remains a better alternative than what Hudson proposes. We first present a brief overview of McCarthy's theory of non-concatenative morphology. We then re…
Tone shift principles in the Chichewa verb
Tone shift principles in the Chichewa verb
Un-Wrap-ing prosodic phrasing in Chichewa
The basic colour terms of Chichewa
On the inadmissibility of feature‐changing rules in phonological theory: Evidence from Chiyao
In defence of the autosegmental treatment of nonconcatenative morphology
The aim of this paper is to defend the autosegmental account of nonconcatenative morphology originally proposed by McCarthy (1979, 1981), which has been seriously challenged by Hudson (1986). It is argued that an autosegmental analysis of nonconcatenative morphology such as that of Arabic still remains a better alternative than what Hudson proposes. We first present a brief overview of McCarthy's theory of non-concatenative morphology. We then re…
Tone shift principles in the Chichewa verb
On tone and transfer in Chicheŵa reduplication
In defence of the autosegmental treatment of nonconcatenative morphology
The aim of this paper is to defend the autosegmental account of nonconcatenative morphology originally proposed by McCarthy (1979, 1981), which has been seriously challenged by Hudson (1986). It is argued that an autosegmental analysis of nonconcatenative morphology such as that of Arabic still remains a better alternative than what Hudson proposes. We first present a brief overview of McCarthy's theory of non-concatenative morphology. We then re…
On the inadmissibility of feature‐changing rules in phonological theory: Evidence from Chiyao
On the inadmissibility of feature‐changing rules in phonological theory: Evidence from Chiyao
Extralinguistic constraints on rule application in Chichewa and Chiyao phonology
The basic colour terms of Chichewa
Prosody and information structure in Chichewa
This paper presents preliminary results of a phonetic and phonological study of the Ntcheu dialect of Chichewa spoken by Al Mtenje (one of the co-authors). This study confirms Kanerva's (1990) work on Nkhotakota Chichewa showing that phonological re-phrasing is the primary cue to information structure in this language. It expands on Kanerva's work in several ways. First, we show that focus phrasing has intonational correlates, namely, the manipul…
Tone in Cindali
Prosody of relative clauses in Chewa
This paper tests three current theories of the phonology-syntax interface – Truckenbrodt (1995), Pak (2008) and Cheng & Downing (2007, 2009) – on the prosody of relative clauses in Chewa. Relative clauses, especially restrictive relative clauses, provide an ideal data set for comparing these theories, as they each make distinct predictions about the optimal phrasing. We show that the asymmetrical phase-edge based approach developed to account for…
On relative clauses and prosodic phrasing in Ciwandya
The interaction between Syntax and Phonology has been one area of interesting empirical research and theoretical debate in recent years, particularly the question of the extent to which syntactic structure influences phonological phrasing. It has generally been observed that the edges of the major syntactic constituents (XPs) tend to coincide with prosodic phrase boundaries thus resulting in XPs like subject NPs, object NPs, Topic NPs, VPs etc. f…
Un-Wrap-ing prosodic phrasing in Chichewa
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Phonology (4 works)