This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is a well-known phenomenon in the languages of the world but occurs only rarely in Bantu languages. Nevertheless, it is well attested in the Bantu languages of groups B70 and B80 spoken in the south west of the DR Congo, in the Kwilu district. The article describes the different conditions and realizations of diphthongization in these languages. Some vowels are much more prone to diphthongization than others. Different diphthongs are classified following the original opening of the diphthongized vowel : diphthongization of mid open vowels (* e, * o), diphthongization of mid closed vowels (* ɩ, * ʊ) and diphthongization of the open and central v...
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International audienceThis paper investigates vowel elision and morpheme deletion inEmbosi (Bantu C2...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This is a qualitative analysis of the traditional position in theoretical linguistics that Bantu lan...
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In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss (...
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Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on ...
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This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
There has been much recent work on explaining different types of phonetic and phonological processes...
Abstract : Bantu languages have proved a good testing ground for tonal theories, due to their divers...
Previous literature on Ɖitammari wrongly glides high vowels in order to avoid diphthongization (see ...
Vowel hiatus is inadmissible in many languages. ChiNambya and chiZezuru rely on coalescence, glide e...
International audienceThis paper investigates vowel elision and morpheme deletion inEmbosi (Bantu C2...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This article studies diphthongization or vowel breaking in some Bantu languages. Diphthongization is...
This is a qualitative analysis of the traditional position in theoretical linguistics that Bantu lan...
In this article, we offer a historical account of the development of two phonemic ‘interior’ vowels,...
In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss (...
This paper examines reflexes of Proto-Bantu phonemes in Cibinji cya Ngusu, a Bantu language classifi...
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on ...
This paper describes the sources and surface representations of vowel length in Shangaci, a Mozambic...
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
There has been much recent work on explaining different types of phonetic and phonological processes...
Abstract : Bantu languages have proved a good testing ground for tonal theories, due to their divers...
Previous literature on Ɖitammari wrongly glides high vowels in order to avoid diphthongization (see ...
Vowel hiatus is inadmissible in many languages. ChiNambya and chiZezuru rely on coalescence, glide e...
International audienceThis paper investigates vowel elision and morpheme deletion inEmbosi (Bantu C2...