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Tone split and tone replacement: diachronic pathways to a third tone level in ‘western’ SBB languages (Central Africa)

Pascal Boyeldieu

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Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi (SBB) languages represent a group of some 40 African languages that are scattered between Lake Chad in the North-West, and Lake Albert in the South-East, thus covering parts of Chad, Sudan, South-Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. While languages in the East display two-tone systems directly reflecting the historical *SBB configuration, a large subgroup of ‘western’ (*OCC) languages later innovated in developing a new tone in the high frequencies. However this change followed different ways according to the grammatical category it affected: in verbs it is systematically correlated with the modification of a certain tone verb class while, in nouns, it represents non-systematic and irregular replacements of the original tone patterns resulting from a likely contact with a new linguistic environment.
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halshs-04366808 , version 1 (29-12-2023)

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Pascal Boyeldieu. Tone split and tone replacement: diachronic pathways to a third tone level in ‘western’ SBB languages (Central Africa). International Conference on Historical Linguistics - ICHL26, University of Heidelberg, Sep 2023, Heidelberg (Germany), Germany. ⟨halshs-04366808⟩
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