A Possible New Cause of Tone-Splitting [electronic resource] : Evidence from Cama, Yoruba, and Other Languages / Ian Maddieson.
This paper reviews the evidence that Proto-Niger-Congo was a tone language with only two level tones and seeks to find the evidence that will explain how some of the descendant languages have more than two tones. In particular it shows how synchronic tone rules in Cama and consonant correspondences...
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