TAPS - Typology of African Prosodic Systems

Universität Bielefeld
May 18 - 20, 2001

Programme

Thursday, 17th Friday, 18th Saturday, 19th Sunday, 20th
9.00   Workshop opening TONE SESSION continued QUANTITATIVE MODELS
9.30 Ian Maddieson: Benjamin Elugbe: The tone system of Akpes Bob Ladd: A quantitative model of cross-speaker pitch equivalence
    TONE SESSION  
10.15 Laura Downing: Tone in Reduplication Zakari Tchagbale:L'accent tonal en Tem: resume Bruce Connell: Downdrift, downstep and declination
11.00 Coffee Coffee Coffee
11.30   Lolke J. Van der Veen: The tone system of Geviya
full paper
Amedo De Dominicis, University of Tuscia, Italy: The Masa tonal system
full paper
Dafydd Gibbon: Can computational phonology contribute to prosodic typology? Finite state models of tone systems. (pdf file)
12.15   Rose-Juliet Anyanwu:Towards an analysis of contour tones in Etulo Constance Kutsch Lojenga: Elicitating tonal data Final discussion  
13.00   Lunch Lunch Lunch
      PROSODIC STRUCTURE SESSION
14.30   Will Leben: Tonal feet Akinbiyi Akinlabi/Mark Liberman: Tone Polarization and Dissimilation (pdf file)
15.15   Eno-Abasi Urua: The Ibibio tone system Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Towards a typology of stress assignment manifestation in African languages  
16.00 Coffee Coffee
16.30   Firmin Ahoua/Will Leben: Tonal changes of Bia Languages in Central Tano Ulrike Gut: The prosody of Nigerian English
17.15 Ngessimo Mutaka: The typology of tonal systems in the Kinande complex verb
full paper
Ulrike Gut, Eno-Abasi Urua, Sandrine Adouakou & Dafydd Gibbon: The rhythm of tone languages: A study of Ibibio, Ega, and Anyi (pdf file)  
19.30 Warming up dinner at the Mövenpick Hotel Conference dinner Buffet Dinner at the Gibbons'

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