The Intonation of the Saami Languages
Most work on the phonology of Saami has tended to focus on its ternary length contrast and highly intricate morphophonology, which includes consonant gradation and a raft of quantitative and qualitative alternations (Sammallahti 1998). However, the intonation and higher level of prosody of Saami is...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.3165 http://hum.uit.no/a/bye/papers/saami_intonation.pdf |
| Summary: | Most work on the phonology of Saami has tended to focus on its ternary length contrast and highly intricate morphophonology, which includes consonant gradation and a raft of quantitative and qualitative alternations (Sammallahti 1998). However, the intonation and higher level of prosody of Saami is very little researched. The vast bulk of research on intonation has focussed on a rather non-representative sample of Indo-European languages, mainly Germanic and Romance. Aside from some very early and sketchy descriptions of Saami |
|---|