Nasality in Dagbani prosody
Nasality in Dagbani prosody
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达格巴尼韵律中的鼻音
DOI：
10.1515/flin-2020-2039
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发表时间：
2020
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0.6
通讯作者：
Mohammed Osman Nindow
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作者：
Fusheini Hudu;Mohammed Osman Nindow
Abstract 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.
