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How tones are assigned to Kabiye noun class suffixes

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This paper focuses on two tonal phenomena - that have apparently not been reported elsewhere in Gur languages: root melodies associating to whole words and tonal overwriting.

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This page is a summary of: Word tone and tonal overwriting in Kabiye nouns, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jall-2016-0004.
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