ILCAA Joint Research Project

A Comprehensive Study of Tone/Accent Languages of Africa (jrp000219)

Keywords

• tone
• accent
• Africa

Areas

• Africa

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2016–March, 2019

Despite many African languages being tonal/accentual, we know little about their functioning. In our project, each member displays and explains the tone/accent system of the languages he/she studies. The tone-syntax interface is also a topic of research because in most African tone/accent languages, the grammatical function (to differentiate relative clauses from direct clauses, affirmatives from negatives, etc.) is more important than the lexical function (to differentiate words that are otherwise the same), which is different from the case in East Asian tone/accent languages.

Members

Coordinator

• Shigeki KAJI (Kyoto Sangyo University)

ILCAA Staff

• Hideo SAWADA
• Daisuke SHINAGAWA

Joint Researchers

• Maya ABE
• Yuko ABE
• Makoto FURUMOTO
• Masaaki KADOYA
• Shigeki KAJI
• Tosirou KAMIYA
• Kazuhiro KAWACHI
• Kyoko KOGA
• Junko KOMORI
• Yuka MAKINO
• Shuichiro NAKAO
• Katsuhiko SHIOTA
• Miyako TAKAMURA
• Motomichi WAKASA
• Nobuko YONEDA
• Seunghun LEE

Outputs

Meetings

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(600KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 20 Oct 2018 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA

• Motomichi WAKASA(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atomi Univrsity)

  “Accent of Wolaytta common nouns”

  Maya ABE(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Nominal Tone in Mbugu”

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(804KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 9 Jun 2018 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA

• Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint Researchers, Kochi University)

  “Tone patterns of Akan and Nzema Nominals”

  Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)

  “Characteristics of Kiga Tone”

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(343KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 23 Dec 2017 13:30–18:00
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA

• Miyako TAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University)

  “Tone/accent patterns in Bondei”

  Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)

  “Five verb forms in Nyoro conjugation - Concerning the homology of object relative forms and conditional clause 1 forms as seen from a tonological point of view”

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(904KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 23 Jul 2017 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA
• Organized by Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)

• Yuka MAKINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Tone and prosody in Lamba”

  Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

  “Tone patterns in Rombo (Bantu E623)”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(101KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 25 Mar 2017 13:30–18:00
• Venue: Room 302, ILCAA

• Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “The “sing-song” prosody of Kimakunduchi (Kikae) nouns”

  Nobuko YONEDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Nominal tone patterns in Herero (Bantu R31)”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(85KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 2 Jul 2016 13:30–17:30
• Venue: Room 301, ILCAA

• Katsuhiko SHIOTA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “An overview of Hausa Tone”

  Yuko ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Tone Patterns of Bende”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(97KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 16 Apr 2016 13:30–18:00
• Venue: Room 301, ILCAA

• Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)

  The purpose of the project

  Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)

  Tone types of some Bantu languages such as Tembo, Haya, Ankole, Tooro, Nyoro, etc.

  All members

  discussion

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