Product Description: This book brings together a collection of papers focusing on the tonal systems of the Bantu languages of sub-Saharan Africa. These papers are alike in their attempt to fuse the description of Bantu tone with linguistic theory, but at the same time reflect a range of such theoretical perspectives (autosegmental phonology, lexical phonology, optimality theory, optimal domains theory)...read more

Product Description: The papers in this volume address a range of issues and problems in current phonological theory, examining many levels of phonological representation. The papers grew out of a conference held in May, 1991, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Department of Linguistics...read more