Anthony Struthers-Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Struthers-Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Struthers-Young |
| SIGNATURE | STRUTHERS-YOUNG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9685-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation
This article describes and analyzes double downstep in Northern Toussian (Niger Congo; Burkina Faso), a phenomenon whereby downstep occurs twice at the same position in the utterance, leading to a precipitous drop in pitch. I argue that this is caused by two separate effects: 1) a prosodically conditioned boundary effect, as well as 2) an instance of grammatical tone. Each of these processes cause downstep, and when both of them target the same s…
A Preliminary Account of the Northern Toussian Balafon Surrogate Language
Northern Toussian is a language spoken in southwest Burkina Faso. Like many of the ethnicities in the region, members of the musical caste, the griots, have developed a musical surrogate language which is played on the balafon. This article is a preliminary documentation of the Northern Toussian balafon surrogate language, describing its cultural usage, analyzing how the tones of the spoken language are encoded in the surrogate language and compa…
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A Preliminary Account of the Northern Toussian Balafon Surrogate Language
Northern Toussian is a language spoken in southwest Burkina Faso. Like many of the ethnicities in the region, members of the musical caste, the griots, have developed a musical surrogate language which is played on the balafon. This article is a preliminary documentation of the Northern Toussian balafon surrogate language, describing its cultural usage, analyzing how the tones of the spoken language are encoded in the surrogate language and compa…
Double downstep in Northern Toussian: Implications on tonal representation
This article describes and analyzes double downstep in Northern Toussian (Niger Congo; Burkina Faso), a phenomenon whereby downstep occurs twice at the same position in the utterance, leading to a precipitous drop in pitch. I argue that this is caused by two separate effects: 1) a prosodically conditioned boundary effect, as well as 2) an instance of grammatical tone. Each of these processes cause downstep, and when both of them target the same s…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Documentation (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (1 works) · Mathematics (1 works) · Natural language processing (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works)