The prosody of ‘dislocation’ in selected Bantu languages

Abstract: Previous work on the prosodic phrasing of left and right dislocations in Bantu languages has shown that one finds two basic patterns: an asymmetric phrasing pattern where only right dislocations are phrased separately from what precedes, and a symmetric pattern, where both left and right d...

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Published in:	Lingua Vol. 121; no. 4; pp. 772 - 787
Main Author:	Downing, Laura J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Apr2011
Subjects:	Versification Language & languages Bantu languages Pattern perception Syntax (Grammar) Phonology Phraseology Information asymmetry Intonation (Phonetics)
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