Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu

Shluinsky, Andrey

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101484

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“…Sossoukpe 2017). The vowel /a/ is classified as [−ATR] by Sossoukpe and as neutral by Shluinsky. Shluinsky (2022), in turn, considers all central vowels as [−ATR] based on the preliminary results of our study.…”

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Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa)

Makeeva,

Kuznetsova

2022

Phonology

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This study examines phonological and phonetic properties of ATR contrasts in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa). The sum of descriptive evidence, including vowel harmony, vowel distribution in non-harmonising contexts, vowel reduction and typological and etymological considerations, indicates a rare vowel inventory with an ATR contrast in front/back vowels but a height contrast in the three redundantly [ $-$ ATR] central vowels /ᵻ, ə, a/. This analysis was checked against four common acoustic metrics of ATR: F1 and F2 frequencies, spectral slope and F1 bandwidth size (B1). As expected, the results for the last three metrics were variable across speakers and vowel types, and are therefore inconclusive. The results for F1 were consistent but do not distinguish between ATR and vowel height. Two results nonetheless suggest the [ $-$ ATR] status of central vowels: they occupy the same belt of F1 frequencies and show the same position of observed-over-predicted B1 values as front and back [ $-$ ATR] vowels.

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Section: Interior Vowelsmentioning

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“…To provide morphological context for the description of the harmony patterns, we will briefly present the basic word structure of Akebu (see Makeeva & Shluinsky 2018; Makeeva 2022a; Shluinsky 2022). In Akebu, nouns are marked for class, and verbs, numerals and pronouns agree in class with nouns.…”

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Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa)

Makeeva,

Kuznetsova

2022

Phonology

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Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu

Shluinsky

2023

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

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This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized. Two prepositions are used very widely, one of them expressing a comitative meaning and a number of related ones, the other having a generalized locative meaning, as well as other ones. In contrast, postpositions are more numerous, but most of them are weakly grammaticalized relator nouns that express the meanings of locational orientations and keep nominal morphology and independent uses. Still, grammaticalized postpositions are also present, the most common of them being a postposition that expresses apudessive, i.e. near, next to, orientation.

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Incorporation as a nominal attribute strategy in Akebu

Cited by 2 publications

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Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa)

Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa)

Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu

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