Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Chapter 3 is about the sounds of Bantu languages. Many Bantu languages have relatively simple segmental inventories. However, internal developments and external influences create considerable diversity in consonantal and vocalic patterns. Depressor consonants, ATR/RTR vowels, prenasalised stops, ejectives and clicks are among the sounds that have been investigated using a wide range of articulatory and acoustic instrumental phonetic techniques. Phonetic timing patterns and tone and stress interactions in Bantu languages provide a wealth of patterns to test phonological theories.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Ian Maddieson, Bonny Sands
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W587241