A Tonal Grammar of Kinyarwanda: An Autosegmental and Metrical Analysis

abáana adjectives analysis applies autosegmental autosegmental phonology b.-kúunguut Bantu languages Beat Addition bisyllabic byaa c.-óogosh class marker clitic coda compensate compound-noun consonant defend derivation disjunct dissimilation examples floating tones glide grammatical tone head noun high tone assignment high tone assimilation high tone displacement ideophones imperfective aspect initial vowel Kimenyi Kinyarwanda lexical high tone lexical tone loan-words long vowel low tone Meeussen rule metrical domain metrical tree mora morpheme morphology nasal nucleus object-pronoun onomastic oonger palatal palatalized consonants phonetic phonological rules preceding prenasalized consonant preprefix put a high recent past reduplication remote past rhythm rules s/he second syllable segments shake shave shuumbuush sing stem first syllable strong beat structure suffixes syllable high tone syllable nucleus tabaar takes place tense marker tier tonal tone anticipation tone neutralization tone repetition tone rhythm tone rules umugabo verb forms verb stem vowel deletion vowel harmony vowel lengthening