The tonemes of Xhosa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2138352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L W Lanham (Rhodes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 65-81 |
| Publication date | 1958-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020185808707048 |
| OpenAlex | W2116635465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
SYNOPSIS All gliding and level tones in Xhosa are members of three pitch phonemes (tonemes). Phonemes of prosody are not distinctive per se to the same extent as segmental phonemes, and few Xhosa tones can be identified tonemically when examined out of context. Even when taken in context the tonemic interpretation of Xhosa tones depends heavily upon the recognition of certain features present in the speech continuum which have a raising or lowering effect, or distort the shapes of tonemic norms. In this connection the recognition of the “tonal step” is vital because it is only within this unit that pitch contrasts are maintained. At the morphological level tonemes function within a system of tonal morphemes which can be analysed and described apart from that involving segmental morphemes
Context (archaeology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Morpheme · Prosody · Speech recognition · Xhosa · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2000 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |