A Preliminary Account of the Northern Toussian Balafon Surrogate Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22093067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Struthers-Young (0009-0003-9685-953X, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2297-900X • E-ISSN: 2297-900X |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fcomm.2021.652740 |
| OpenAlex | W4221083874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
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 comparing the Northern Toussian surrogate language with the neighboring Sambla surrogate language. It was found that the Northern Toussian surrogate language encodes significantly more post-lexical features of the spoken language than the Sambla surrogate language, such as downdrift
Documentation · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Programming language · Spoken language · Computer Science · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |