Interaction of pitch and vowel length in two Dene tone languages: Tłîchô Yatiì (drg) and Dene Sųłine (chp)
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This study concerns the interaction of pitch, morphology and vowel length in Tłîchô Yatiì (Dogrib) and Dene Sųłine (Chipewyan), Dene (Athabaskan) tone languages of the Mackenzie River Drainage. Starting from an earlier study we extend it to investigate the realization of tone on long vowels in Tłîchô Yatiì. Our results indicate that slope is a feature of vowel length contrast.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015