2020
DOI: 10.4000/mandenkan.2091
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Guinean Kpelle – French Dictionary

Abstract: Ce dictionnaire de la langue kpele de Guinée (guerzé, ou kpɛ ̀lɛɛwoo d a n s l'orthographe kpele) est adressé en particulier au peuple kpele et a pour but de promouvoir l'alphabétisation et la scolarisation en langue kpele. Ce livre peut également servir aussi bien à ceux dont la langue maternelle n'est pas le kpele et qui désirent l'apprendre qu'aux linguistes qui s'intéressent à la langue kpele.Les données de ce dictionnaire ont été recueillies au cours d'un travail de terrain mené en Guinée forestière entre… Show more

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“…Still, some language specifi c rules apply since loan nouns are assigned /(L)HL/ and loan verbs get /H/ tone. A possible explanation of this difference may come from the fact that while /(L)HL/ pattern is common for native GK nouns, it is quite rare for native verbs accounting for as little as 10% of the verbs in my dictionary (Konoshenko 2019). I would argue that, since fi nal fall associated with French stress in GK is not common in native verbs, loan verbs are assigned lexical /H/ in GK.…”
Section: Lexical Tone Accommodation Of Loanwordsmentioning
confidence: 89%
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“…Still, some language specifi c rules apply since loan nouns are assigned /(L)HL/ and loan verbs get /H/ tone. A possible explanation of this difference may come from the fact that while /(L)HL/ pattern is common for native GK nouns, it is quite rare for native verbs accounting for as little as 10% of the verbs in my dictionary (Konoshenko 2019). I would argue that, since fi nal fall associated with French stress in GK is not common in native verbs, loan verbs are assigned lexical /H/ in GK.…”
Section: Lexical Tone Accommodation Of Loanwordsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…Finally, both lexical and grammatical tones are subject to surface phonological rules: H spread, contour simplification resulting in downstep, and (H) linking (Konoshenko 2019).…”
Section: Native Guinean Kpelle Tonal Morphophonologymentioning
confidence: 99%
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