8. Accent in African languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents XIII
3. Part I. Typological Surveys
4. 1. Word accent: Terms, typologies and theories 3
5. 2. An overview of word stress in Australian Aboriginal languages 55
6. 3. Stress types in Austronesian languages 87
7. 4. Word stress and pitch accent in Papuan languages 113
8. 5. Accent in the native languages of North America 155
9. 6. The Languages of Middle America 249
10. 7. A Survey of South American stress systems 313
11. 8. Accent in African languages 381
12. 9. Word accent systems in the languages of Europe 429
13. 10. Word accent systems in the languages of Asia 509
14. 11. Word accent systems in the Middle East 615
15. 12. A typology of stress patterns 647
16. Part II. StressTyp Data
17. Australian languages 669
18. Austronesian languages 691
19. Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya languages 731
20. North American languages 745
21. Middle American languages 771
22. South American languages 775
23. Eurasian languages 788
24. Asian languages 825
25. Middle Eastern and African languages 833
26. Backmatter 847