Nasality in Dagbani prosody

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ID21463293
AuthorsFusheini Angulu Hudu (0000-0001-9088-6308, University of Ghana, corresponding author), Fusheini Hudu (Department of Linguistics , University of Ghana , DeGraft Hanson Building , Room 20 , Legon , Accra , Ghana), Mohammed Osman Nindow (0000-0002-4917-6010, Family Health International (FHI360) , Durham , NC , USA)
Year2020
Volume54
Issue3
Pages527-550
Publication date2020-09-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-4004 • E-ISSN: 1614-7308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/flin-2020-2039
OpenAlexW3135049050
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

This paper presents a detailed analysis of nasality in Dagbani, a Gur language of Ghana, and the role it plays in Dagbani prosody. It demonstrates that the nasal is at the centre of defining the range of what is possible in Dagbani prosodic patterns. Nasals provide the basis for determining the full range of syllable types and the tone bearing unit of Dagbani; nasals are the only coda consonants that licence vowel lengthening; and nasals provide the only cases of phonological non-vocalic geminates. The overall effects of the influence of nasality is the emergence of complex prosodic structures. Contrary to the crosslinguistically acclaimed marked position of the coda, the CVN syllable is the default, unmarked syllable in Dagbani

Acoustics · Coda · Linguistics · Nasality · Nasalization · Physics · Prosody · Speech recognition · Syllable · Vowel · Computer Science · Engineering · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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